New research reveals that serotonin plays a key role in how the brain predicts future rewards, shedding light on its puzzling activity in response to both pleasure and pain.

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, unpleasantness and origin. Several past neuroscience studies have explored ...

As cancer progressed, mice still pursued easy rewards but quickly abandoned tasks requiring greater effort. Meanwhile, we ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that acute pain was rated as less intense and unpleasant when watching nature videos -- along with a reduction in brain activity ...

The researchers then used advanced machine learning to analyze raw sensory signals that the brain receives during periods of physical pain. Results showed that these signals were reduced when ...

A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. Published in the journal Nature ...

Stress can overwhelm highly sensitive people, but by connecting with both the relative (daily life) and the transcendent (the ...

A study published Wednesday indicates that low levels of a key brain chemical among overweight patients with high-fat diets is responsible for a loss of pleasure from food. Researchers from the ...

“I remember being in such extreme pain. I could barely walk. I couldn't see,” she explained. “I didn't wanna do anything.” Teddi Mellencamp Reveals 3 More Tumors Were Found in Her ...

Vets and human doctors use them to reduce pain and fear ... Sedatives work because of how nerve cells in the brain send and receive messages. “Everything in our body is electrical,” Malavasi ...

If you have ever brushed your hand against a thorn or been bitten by a mosquito, you know that feeling pain vs. an itch are two different experiences. A new study published in Nature ...