Why Analgesic Drugs May Be Less Potent In Females Than In Males
Investigators at Georgia State University's Neuroscience Institute and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience are the first to identify the most likely reason analgesic drug treatment is usually less potent in females than males.

Hot Chili Peppers Help Unravel The Mechanism Of Pain
Researchers have used capsaicin -- the chemical that makes peppers like this jalapeno spicy hot -- to uncover novel insight into how pain-receptor systems can adapt to painful stimuli.

Investigating The Development Of Mechanosensitivity
Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises

Chronic Pain Can Impair Memory
Anyone who has experienced chronic pain knows that it affects the ability to work, sleep and perform other activities essential to leading a full life.

Chronic Pain Harms The Brain
People with unrelenting pain don't only suffer from the non-stop sensation of throbbing pain.

Baffling Chronic Pain Linked To Weird Rewiring Of Brain
Scientists peered at the brains of people with a baffling chronic pain condition and discovered something surprising.

New Cannabis-like Drugs Could Block Pain Without Affecting Brain, Says Study
A new type of drug could alleviate pain in a similar way to cannabis without affecting the brain, according to a new study.

Sleep Apnea Linked to Insulin Resistance, Independent of Obesity
The results definitively link SDB to pre-diabetic changes in insulin production and glucose metabolism.

How taste response is hard-wired into the brain
Instantly reacting to the sweet lure of chocolate or the bitter taste of strychnine would seem to demand that such behavioral responses be so innate as to be hard-wired into the brain.

Auditory neurons in humans far more sensitive to fine sound frequencies than most mammals
Researchers implant electrodes in the brain, and use the soundtrack from 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

Olfactory nerve cells expressing same receptor display a varied set of reactions
In a mouse model, researchers discovered that olfactory sensory neurons expressing the same receptor responded to a specific odor with an array of speeds and sensitivities

Adult brain cells are movers and shakers
It's a general belief that the circuitry of young brains has robust flexibility but eventually gets "hard-wired" in adulthood.

Brains response to visual stimuli helps us to focus on what we should see, rather than all there is to see
Delving ever deeper into the intricate architecture of the brain, researchers have now described how two different types of nerve cells work together in tiny sub-networks to pass on just the right amount and the right kind of sensory information.

How the brain sorts babble into auditory streams
Known as "the cocktail party problem," the ability of the brain's auditory processing centers to sort a babble of different sounds, like cocktail party chatter, into identifiable individual voices has long been a mystery

UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells
Brain's mirror neurons swayed by ethnicity and culture

A pain in the ACC
An emerging theme in systems neurobiology is that even simple forms of memory depend on activity in a broad network of cortical and subcortical brain regions.

Breaking down the barriers: fMRI applications in pain, analgesia and analgesics
This review summarizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) findings that have informed our current understanding of pain, analgesia and related phenomena

Vision restoration therapy shown to improve brain activity in brain injured patients
Brain activity demonstrated using fMRI in stroke and other brain injured patients

True colors are in the brain of the beholder
Pictures of brain waves that reveal our ability to see colour could provide a new objective way to diagnose and monitor diseases that affect human colour perception.

When the music stops, the brain gets going
While music may soothe the savage breast, the brain thrills to the sound of silence.