Everyday sounds add to the torment of a person with chronic back pain, apparently because pain rewires how the brain responds ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

Chronic back pain causes the brain to amplify everyday sounds, but Pain Reprocessing Therapy can "turn down the volume." ...

Chronic back pain changes brain responses, making everyday sounds feel more distressing than physical pressure.

The study, published in Annals of Neurology, links this increased sound sensitivity to measurable differences in brain ...

Scientists have shown that a non-invasive sound stimulation of the brain at a specific frequency can clear toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, an advance that could lead to low-cost therapy.

People with chronic back pain process everyday sounds differently, and more intensely, than people without pain, according to ...