Chronic pain
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A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain
J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain and lead to new, more efficacious treatments.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-neurons-brainstem-may-hold-key-treating-chronic-pain
