The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor ...

I don't care much for pain. In fact, I'll do almost anything to avoid it. I also know that pain can be a good thing. The ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites a vast swath ...

Left: Fluids were delivered using an MR-compatible fluid delivery system (gustometer) and removed from participants’ mouths during the experiment using a suction device. Middle: Capsaicin or chocolate ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...

Anticipating pleasure or pain before tasting hot sauce appears to influence how the brain responds to the spicy flavour. “This has broader implications beyond spicy food,” says Yi Luo at East China ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...