New research highlights how the brain’s own chemistry can suppress pain, explaining why severely injured individuals, like WWII soldiers, sometimes feel little discomfort.

If you have ever brushed your hand against ... signals to the brain that trigger the impulse to scratch, temporarily relieving that itchy feeling. Pain, on the other hand, can be a sign of ...

A fundamental concept to first understand is that you do not detect pain – it is a sensation. A sensation that your brain has ...

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.