Due to its adaptive value, the ability to detect and respond to potentially harmful stimuli is among the most evolutionarily conserved functions of the ...

A recent study published in Neuron reveals the long-range circuit underlying nociceptive information processing. This work was performed by the researchers from Dr. Sun Yangang's Lab at the Institute ...

Pain arises from the activation of specialised sensory receptors—nociceptors—by potentially damaging mechanical, thermal or chemical stimuli. Signals from these receptors travel along Aδ and C fibres ...

A research team led by Prof. HU Li at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) ...

New statistical models based on rigorous physiological data from more than 100 surgeries provide objective, accurate measures of 'nociception,' the body's subconscious perception of pain. The degree ...

The degree to which a surgical patient's subconscious processing of pain, or "nociception," is properly managed by their anesthesiologist will directly affect the degree of post-operative drug side ...