Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW January 29, 2025 1115 Add to Email Alerts A novel biomarker signature may offer a more objective way of predicting pain sensitivity, new research suggested. Investigators utilized the biomarker, which consisted of two measures — sensorimotor peak alpha frequency (PAF) and corticomotor excitability (CME) — to predict pain response in...
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Brain changes behind pain sensitivity may affect older women more
by Emily CaldwellEmily Caldwell, The Ohio State University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA 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 sensitive to moderate pain than males as older adults. Researchers used fMRI scans...
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Link found between pain sensitivity and circadian rhythm
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress The circadian rhythm and melatonin production of a human. Credit: Srruhh, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons A team of researchers with members from Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Paris-Saclay Université has found a link between pain sensitivity and a person’s circadian rhythm. In their paper...