Chronic pain linked to increase risk of dementia
UC San Francisco researchers have found that chronic pain seems to be related to changes in the brain that lead to dementia....
read morePeople with chronic pain may have impaired neuroplasticity
In a recent study, researchers found that while people with no history of chronic pain got better at a certain task with training and had neuroplastic changes in their brains, those with chronic pain had did not get better...
read moreSensitivity to pain linked to amount of gray matter in brain
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center discovered that people with the highest pain intensity rating have less gray matter in the brain regions associated with internal thoughts and attention control....
read morePost-op pain may cause more problems with learning and memory...
Pain from a surgical incision may increase the risk of learning and memory problems in the days following the surgery....
read moreMath anxiety may cause physical pain
People who are anxious about math may experience physical pain and “instinctive risk detection.” That’s because math anxiety triggers regions of the brain associated with pain. In one study, these results were found on adults, so it’s not just...
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