Pain

How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it © Getty Images

How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it

Skin-to-skin contact with a parent may reduce new-born babies’ brain response to a pain © PA News

Skin-to-skin contact with a parent may reduce newborn babies’ brain response to pain

'Off-switch' for pain found in mice brains © Fan Wang Lab - Duke University

‘Off-switch’ for pain found in mice brains

Yoga may help ease the symptoms of migraine © Getty Images

Yoga may help ease the symptoms of migraine

Sensitivity in brain region controlling vision could lead to migraines © Getty Images

The cause of migraines could be in sight (quite literally)

Could painkillers also kill pleasure? © Getty Images

Could painkillers also kill pleasure?

Fish do feel pain, study confirms © Getty Images

Fish do feel pain, study confirms

Virtual reality shows potential as drug-free alternative to medication © Getty Images

Virtual reality shows potential as drug-free alternative to medication

A genetic mutation could help us understand how to stop pain

Pain How a genetic mutation could bring an end to suffering

Women may not remember pain © Getty Images

Women might not remember pain as much as men

circa 1799: The deathbed of George Washington (1732 - 1799), the 1st President of the United States of America (1789 - 1797). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Think injections are bad? These 250-year-old cures are way worse!

Naked mole-rat pain resistance puzzle solved © Thomas Park, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago

Naked mole-rat pain resistance puzzle solved