Pain in animals is typically assessed using reflexive and physiological responses. These measures allow inferences regarding nociception but provide little basis for conclusions about the affective ...
Social relationships and social networks are vital to the evolutionary survival of our species. When we experience social loss, such as the death of a loved one or the breakup of an important ...
A new study has uncovered neuronal circuitry in the brain of rodents that may play an important role in mediating pain-induced anhedonia -- a decrease in motivation to perform reward-driven behaviors.
Synthese, Vol. 197, No. 10, Special Issue on The Metaphysics of Entanglement (October 2020), pp. 4617-4636 (20 pages) The aim of this paper is to defend, and in so doing clarify, the claim that the ...