
Does Financial Insecurity Lead to More Physical Pain?
Growing evidence suggests a link

Does Financial Insecurity Lead to More Physical Pain?
Growing evidence suggests a link

The Battle over Pain in the Brain
A new study adds to a heated debate about where pain signals are processed


5 Tips to Cope with Chronic Pain
Chronic pain can be in your neck, back and anywhere else. It can disrupt your work, your relationships and, by extension, your mental health. This week, Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen offers five tips to deal with the common challenge of chronic pain

How to Treat a Headache without Drugs
If you find yourself taking headache medication more often than you'd like, try these drug-free approaches next time a headache looms

Subliminal Messages Influence Our Experience of Pain
The brain can learn to associate certain images with more or less pain, even if the images never reach our awareness

Sex Divide Seen in Mechanism That Produces Persistent Pain
Male and female mice are found to regulate pain sensitivity differently, a result which could explain why some drug experiments have failed

On the Horizon: Virtual Reality Therapy That Treats Chronic Pain
Retraining the brain can restore mobility for people with injuries or difficulty moving

Inflammation Factories: Before and after
Recently discovered structures in cells could one day lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, gout and other ailments

Shades of Sensitivity
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

Go Ask Alice: The History of Toklas’ Legendary Hashish Fudge
Alice B. Toklas truly stirred the pot when she included a recipe for hashish fudge in her memoir-cum-cookbook. She published The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook in 1954, following the death of her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein.

Foods On The High End: Exploring Haute Cuisine Cannabis
Inside and outside the kitchen, chefs have been known to get into the weeds–but the majority of culinary cannabis creations have been mainly limited to a few cakes, cookies, and of course, the archetypal pot brownie.

How Designers Can Improve Health Care For Everyone
The last place anyone expects to find a designer is in a hospital, clinic or operating room, but those are exactly the spaces where I embed myself.