The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...

Redheaded women give a new meaning to red hot. Aside from their striking appearance, women with naturally red locks have several other enviable differences than those with other hair colors. The ...

Anticipating pleasure or pain before tasting hot sauce appears to influence how the brain responds to the spicy flavour. “This has broader implications beyond spicy food,” says Yi Luo at East China ...

Drug addiction is not just about chasing pleasure (feeling good) but also involves relieving emotional pain (relief reward or negative reinforcement). The negative emotional state is termed as the ...

When I reflect on some of the most misunderstood concepts within the realm of human sexuality, kink and BDSM are at the top of the list. Specifically, the idea that people could find pleasure in ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites a vast swath ...