Pain has always been in the eye of the beholder. Doctors evaluating patients, as well as scientists studying pain, have had to rely on subjective descriptions, making pain notoriously difficult to ...

Human brain, illustration. Deep brain stimulation can help treat depression, but it can be unclear whether a bout of low mood is a relapse or a bad day. The Conversation — It can be challenging to ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. For ...

Management experts have debated for decades the most useful way to assess employee performance. In today's businesses, employers tend to rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures as part of a ...

New study unveils method to objectively measure fame of a trademark Research is first empirical measure of fame based in neuroscience Academics tell WTR they can help companies introduce approach in ...

In response to Ann Abramowitz’s call for objectively measuring vouchers before considering them a success [“Voucher program calls for objective evaluation,” July 17], one of the difficulties with ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The ...