The study, published in Annals of Neurology, links this increased sound sensitivity to measurable differences in brain activity. The findings suggest that chronic back pain involves changes in the ...

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

When two identical sounds are repeated quickly, a filter reduces the attention that the brain directs to the second sound it hears. In people with schizophrenia, this ability to reduce the brain's ...

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

Sound gets into our brains and processed so quickly that it shapes all other perceptions, says neuroscientist Seth Horowitz. "You hear anywhere... How Sound Shaped The Evolution Of Your Brain How ...

Are there certain sounds that really drive you crazy? Beyond mere frustration or annoyance, sounds that trigger uncontrollable feelings of anger and disgust? If so then you quite possibly suffer from ...

Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

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 ...

In experiments in newborn mice, scientists report that sounds appear to change 'wiring' patterns in areas of the brain that process sound earlier than scientists assumed and even before the ear canal ...