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New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences physician David M. Holmes, MD, offers some advice on staying safe in these frigid temperatures.

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Modern neuroscience and the computational modeling of the activities of vast, integrated neural networks provide fruitful accounts of how our minds work and learn.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...