Detecting pain in animals isn’t exactly as easy as asking them how they’re feeling; they can’t talk, after all. There are ways of identifying signs of pain, however—animals may vocalize distress ...

When a patient cannot say how much pain they are in, such as when they are sedated, have dementia, or are nonverbal, clinicians turn to facial expressions to guide treatment. Tension, frowning, or ...

Cats often receive criticism for appearing distant or unemotional. Unlike dogs, they generally have a more understated way of expressing themselves — perhaps just with a simple twitch of the ear or ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating scale is a self-assessment tool that helps communication about physical pain. It uses a combination of faces, numbers, and words, providing multiple ways for a person ...

Domestication and breeding by humans has affected dogs' abilities to use facial expressions to convey their emotions, a study has found. Researchers at Durham University discovered that modern dogs ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An automated pain recognition system using artificial intelligence (AI) holds promise as an unbiased method to detect pain in patients before, during and after surgery, according to ...

Cats have 276 distinct facial expressions, a discovery that turns on its head the popular belief that our pet felines are aloof and just not that into us. In fact, cats likely evolved these various ...