Tag: pain
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No pain, sane brain: Clues to pain and anxiety treatment
Jo Cameron, 71, recently discovered that her pain insensitivity was unlike her peers. This is despite the former teacher from Inverness experiencing a sensation as small as a ‘tickle’ during childbirth 40 years ago, believing her peers to have exaggerated the pain. In daily life, she had broken limbs, cuts and burns, and underwent many…
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Cancers produce painkillers
Cancer is often synonymous with pain and suffering. Abnormal cell growths produce multiple substances which increase the sensitivity and excitability of nociceptors (pain transmitting neurons), inducing hyperalgesia, a general increased sensitivity to pain, as well as allodynia, when a pain response is triggered by stimuli which do not normally provoke pain. However, not all types…