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Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain
Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectations can influence brain activity patterns for pleasure and pain
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Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine
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Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of trial data
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Cats have brain activity recorded with the help of crocheted hats
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We may finally know how the placebo effect relieves pain
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Pain during intercourse is common among women who have sex with men
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Walking helps keep people free of lower back pain for longer
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Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth of nerve cells
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Injections of drug-filled nanoparticles may relieve arthritis pain
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The neuroscientist harnessing the placebo effect to help soothe pain
How exactly the placebo effect works is still a mystery, but neuroscientist Luana Colloca is working to find the answers in order to change the way we treat pain
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Injured bees tend their own wounds, which suggests they feel pain
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Cannabis can relieve pain short-term, but we still don’t know how
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Not sleeping enough before surgery may increase pain during recovery
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Painful fibromyalgia may be caused by the wrong kind of gut microbes
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