Neuropathic pain - abnormal hypersensitivity to stimuli - is associated with impaired quality of life and is often poorly managed. Estimates suggest that 3 percent to 17 percent of adults suffer from ...

Part 1 of this series explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. If the Victorian ...

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have chronic abdominal pain as a result of visceral hypersensitivity. Voltage-gated sodium channels control cellular excitability and are involved in the ...