For most of us, the hum of a refrigerator, the clatter of plates or a nearby conversation are just background noise. But for ...

An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The newly reported research, led by teams at the National Institute of Dental and ...

People often think of pharmaceutical treatments and meditation to ease physical pain, but pain can be alleviated with music therapy. A study published in Science explored the neural circuits in the ...

You already knew that getting outside to breathe a bit of fresh air and take in the sunshine is good for your soul, but as one researcher recently found, getting outside to listen to Mother Nature can ...

An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of safer methods to treat pain, were ...

Pain is more than a direct response to physical injury. It is a multifaceted experience that includes emotional and sensory components. Psychological stress, including exposure to others in pain, has ...

About 20% of all adults around the world live with chronic pain. Researchers from the University of Minnesota discovered via an animal model that the combination of electrical and sound stimulation ...

Ryan Nelson has an "internal alarm clock" ringing in his head, and it never shuts off. The condition is called tinnitus and it causes a continuous ringing or buzzing in the ear without an external ...

There are certain sounds nearly everyone dislikes: the sound of fingernails scratching a chalkboard, or of a fork scraping a plate, just to list a few. For many people, hearing these sounds, or even ...

Noise-induced hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. It’s not as much a matter of how loud a sound seems, but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever told ...

New research in mice demonstrates that pain relief by sound is not purely attributable to stress reduction and distraction; the study reveals a neural circuit underlying sound-induced analgesia in the ...