Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain into something a camera or sensor can ...

Today is World Anaesthesia Day 2025. Marking this historic date, Anaesthesiologist explains how anaesthesiologists, along ...

No one suggests that a catchy song can fully eliminate serious pain. But several recent studies, including in the journals ...

The singer's latest missive also notes that she "100 percent" believes that she suffered "brain damage" in the past.

We know "practice what you preach," but what about practicing what you prescribe? We've all encountered doctors (on TV or in ...

To dig deeper, the researchers developed a method for measuring activation patterns in astrocytes across a whole brain of a ...

Now, by analyzing thousands of proteins found in the blood, scientists at UC San Francisco have created the clearest picture ...

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting ...

Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

"Prolonged unrest can quickly erode people’s sense of stability," Dr. Nearney says, disrupting everything from sleep and ...