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GERD and acid reflux can perfectly mimic heart attack symptoms. Learn to distinguish digestive from cardiac chest pain.

The marvel of the nervous system is that even though body sense awareness is largely a creation of cortical complexity, we feel in 3-D: the pain is “in” my knee, that object is “out there ...

Suresh could see the music relaxed her grandmother and made her feel less anxious, but she wondered if she also felt less pain. That would make sense ... pointed to which picture best illustrated ...

The need to feel ... a sense of safety but only temporarily, so they are obviously not long-term solutions. Addictions are so destructive because they temporarily mask mental and physical pain ...

“Social support is really important for things that could potentially be threatening, such as stress or pain,” she says. “Having an internalized feeling of being connected with people has an effect on ...

Now, a new study published in the journal Pain Reports has unveiled an effective but unusual illusion that has exciting implications for pain management. The researchers were exploring a ...