New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it. But over time, too much scarring can prevent nerves ...

A nerve injury activates a brain pathway that turns short-term pain into chronic pain. Blocking this signal may prevent long-term pain.

New research suggests spinal cord and brainstem are essential for processing touch signals as they travel to the brain The sense of touch is essential to almost everything we do, from routine tasks at ...

After spinal cord injuries, the brain still sends movement signals, but damaged pathways block them from reaching the limbs.

Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain, using clusters of human nerve cells grown in a dish. Pain pathway in a dish could aid search for new analgesic drugs Scientists have re-created a ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.