A brief history of human pain

To understand the roots of how we think about pain today, it helps to go back and see how earlier cultures made sense of it. Zwiebackesser/Shutterstock Pain is one of the few things all of us experience, from stubbing a toe to waking up with an aching back; we canContinue Reading

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New research challenges the idea that memories of childhood maltreatment can’t be trusted

New Africa/Shutterstock.com People are often treated as unreliable narrators of their own past, and this scepticism runs especially deep around emotionally charged early experiences. Researchers have long worried that memories of abuse and neglect might shift depending on someone’s mood, mental health or current circumstances, meaning what someone tells aContinue Reading

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