The cranial nerves are vulnerable to damage during head trauma. Many of them run over the surface of the skull, protected only by the muscles and tissues of the face. Head trauma occurs when there is ...

Hair-Caused Pain Sometimes, our hair itself may cause pain. One type of fibromyalgia pain is allodynia, which is basically pain from something that shouldn't be painful, such as a loose waistband or ...

[79,91] Provoked pain includes allodynia, pain in response to a normally nonpainful stimulus, and hyperalgesia, an increased response to a normally painful stimulus. Unfortunately, unlike animal ...

LA JOLLA, CA—One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is “allodynia”— increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of ...