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Hurt blocker: To treat chronic pain, look to the brain not body

Rethinking the root causes of chronic pain suggests it will take more than drugs to break the cycle – the answer lies in how the brain processes pain

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Why some itches can’t be scratched – and how to combat them

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Green light found to ease the pain of migraine

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How you can harness the placebo effect

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How you can harness the placebo effect

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Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time

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Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time

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Migraines triggered by protein deep in the brain

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Migraines triggered by protein deep in the brain

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Can software suffer? Death and pain in digital brains

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Can software suffer? Death and pain in digital brains

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E-spliff on sale in UK designed to relieve pain minus the high

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E-spliff on sale in UK designed to relieve pain minus the high

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Why music makes us feel good: It releases brain's painkillers

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Why music makes us feel good: It releases brain's painkillers

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Hold your breath to dampen the pain of an injection

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Hold your breath to dampen the pain of an injection

Hacking your body's pressure sensors by holding your breath sends a signal to your brain to dampen parts of the nervous system. The result? A higher pain threshold

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It hurts to be human: Why pain is fundamentally different for us

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Hungry, in pain or content? Adults can't tell what a baby wants

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Feedback: Won't somebody please think of the robots?

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