After becoming pain patients themselves, these physicians say they faced a system built to treat anatomy, not suffering. The lessons were humbling — and transformative.

People with chronic back pain process everyday sounds differently, and more intensely, than people without pain, according to ...

Chronic back pain appears to amplify everyday sensory experiences, including sound. Brain scans reveal altered activity in ...

Chronic pain has a personalized "brain fingerprint," allowing AI to decode spontaneous pain levels through fMRI scans.

There was a dramatic surge in chronic pain prevalence among American adults three years after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a global pandemic, according to a study ...

The big takeaway is that chronic back pain appears to be a whole-brain, whole-body sensitivity disorder—not just localized to one physical site—and that psychological treatments targeting the brain’s ...

If you're experiencing chronic pain — or at risk of it — this list will help you prepare yourself and know what to ask and do Getty For years, cases of chronic pain have been climbing. In fact, a ...

This is a first post in a 2-part series. How might non-pharmacological approaches, such as positive psychology, offer tangible hope for those who experience chronic pain? My research team has been ...

Not only can experiencing chronic pain affect your mood, experiencing depression can also raise your chances of living with chronic pain. When you think of chronic pain and depression, you probably ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. We all know what “a complainer” is: it’s a person who finds the dark ...