Articles for tag: Nervous System, Neuroscience of pain, pain perception, Pain signals

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Why Do We Feel Pain? A Survival Mystery

Suhail Ahmed

  You probably remember your last sharp sting or dull ache more vividly than your last good meal. Pain crashes into our awareness, demands attention, and refuses to be ignored. For something so universally hated, it is strangely indispensable, hardwired into our nerves and brains by millions of years of evolution. Yet even today, scientists ...

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Why Some People Never Experience Physical Pain

Suhail Ahmed

A child tumbles off a bicycle, stands up, and casually brushes gravel from a bloodied knee. No tears, no flinch, just quiet curiosity. For a tiny group of people, this isn’t bravery – it’s biology. The absence of pain sounds like a superpower until you realize pain is a built‑in alarm, the body’s smoke detector. ...