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Explainer: what is pain and what is happening when we feel it?

Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour

Explainer: what is pain and what is happening when we feel it?

Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour

A long step forward in nerve communications

Agrin, a protein released by nerve cells, helps in triggering off the formation of a machinery through which neurons communicate.

Dead brain cells may be replaceable

Certain mouse brain cells have been found to be capable of producing neurons. Scientists say if similar cells are found to exist in the human …

Finesse is female

Feminists may not like it, but women are softer, gentler... uh, feminine, says science

Mean migraine

Body balance

Two studies suggest that the brain and the nervous system are loaded in favour of symmetry

On love and life

An unusual conference focuses on sociability as an essential part of the species' survival kit

How ageing affects the way we make decisions

The saying goes, with age comes wisdom, but is that really true?

Gutsy brains

Agony and ecstasy

Good night, sleep tight

Reducing brain damage

Role reversal

Speakers and writers

Of mice and memories

Sex on the brain

The battle of the genders intensifies as scientists discover that the differences begin, and perhaps end, at one of the human fundamentals: the brain

The essence of being

Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness

Overabundance of a protein one of the causes of Parkinson’s disease: study

Parkinson’s disease results in declining physical functions, most noticeable of them being uncontrollable tremors

Miniature brains made out of patients’ skin cells to scrutinise autism better: study

Study may help predict possibility of new drug targets

Foetal tissue can cure terminal diseases

Tissue taken from aborted foetuses and implanted into the bodies of patients suffering from several incurable diseases has shown encouraging results

Foot notes

Multiple sclerosis patients and stroke victims take a step towards cure

Phantom of imagination

A simple treatment for imagined pain in an amputated limb

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