Sentences with phrase «diminished pain response»

However, long - term or repeated exposure to capsaicin can reduce substance P in an area, leading to a diminished pain response.

For years, anecdotal reports have suggested that rodents show a diminished pain response when a handler remains in the room.

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Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

A way to treat neuropathic pain would block the stress signal causing it, instead of diminishing the nerve response.