In this post, I’m going to describe a short and easy practice that can help ease physical pain and other unpleasant experiences, from other types of physical discomfort to mental discomfort, such as ...

Body odor. Nose blowing at the dinner table. Loud talking in public spaces. Monosyllabic answers to open-ended questions. Toilet seats left up. Piles of crumbs lingering on the counter. Incessant ...

An experimental study in Poland found that the perceived intensity and unpleasantness of experimentally induced pain decreased after a four-minute walk through a green environment (a virtual park rich ...

Researchers have revealed how the brain processes emotions related to sustained pain and pleasure. A team of researchers led by LEE Soo Ahn and WOO Choong-Wan at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging ...

Pain is a complicated experience. Our skin and muscles sense it, just like they sense softness or warmth. But unlike other sensations, the experience of pain is distinctly unpleasant. Pain has to hurt ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more ...

The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious experiences of pain, disgust and unfairness. However, it is debated ...