Because chronic pain and depression can involve the same nerves and neurotransmitters, certain antidepressants are often used to treat both. Some antidepressants can reduce the perception of pain.

These neurotransmitters play a role in determining the intensity of pain a person feels. Blocking the effect of these neurotransmitters can help to suppress certain pain pathways in the brain.

Back pain is difficult to treat because it has so many different causes — and this one is frequently overlooked.

A new study by led by Mass General researchers has identified a neurotransmitter that plays a major role in chronic pain associated with sleep loss. Administering this neurotransmitter to the brain ...

Doctors don’t know exactly why some antidepressants help with pain. They may affect chemicals in your spinal cord -- you may hear them called neurotransmitters -- that send pain signals to your ...

This process of translating pain into a threat memory occurs so quickly that scientists thought it must be mediated by fast-acting molecules called neurotransmitters.

Pain takes away power. That’s just what it does. It makes you feel like your body and life are no longer under your control. It steals your health, mobility, relationships, sex life, hobbies ...

Opioids work by stimulating opioid receptors in the brain, blocking those pain signals. During the process, the brain also floods with the neurotransmitter dopamine, creating feelings of euphoria ...