The novel cue-induced analgesia paradigm allowed a compelling identification of a brainstem circuit element, i.e., somatostatin-expressing neurons within the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey that ...

IB-Stim is the only pediatric treatment option that the FDA has cleared for FAP in IBS and abdominal pain in functional dyspepsia (to include nausea symptoms) for patients 8-21 years old.

Notably, the altered pain intensity and pain tolerance were significantly correlated with specific microstate dynamics indicators, suggesting that these changes in large-scale brain network dynamics ...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy can classify pain, and virtual reality may reduce cancer-related pain. Somayeh B. Shafiei, Ph.D., from the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo ...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fINRS) can classify pain, and virtual reality (VR) can reduce cancer-related pain, according to a study ...

Rating scales can be for tracking pain intensity over time. If pain goes from eight to four, that probably means you’re feeling better – even if someone else’s four is different to yours.

But the zero-to-10 scale is ubiquitous today because of what was called a “pain revolution” in the ’90s, when intense new attention to addressing pain — primarily with opioids — was ...

The enthusiasm for narcotics left many varietals of pain underexplored and undertreated for years. Only in 2018, a year when nearly 50,000 Americans died of an overdose, did Congress start funding a ...

Asking patients to rate their pain on a scale from zero to 10 is “a simple but baffling request,” Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, wrote in a July 2 opinion piece for KFF Health News. Dr. Rosenthal, a ...

A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative. By Elisabeth Rosenthal Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani June 24, 2024 ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to assess the validity of the French-translated “Functional Pain Scale” (FPS), derived from the DVPRS, for multidimensional pain evaluation in acute and ...