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Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit linking physical pain to emotional suffering, offering new hope for chronic pain treatment.

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Assessment of spinothalamic tract function beyond pinprick in spinal cord lesions: a contact heat evoked potential study. Neurorehabil. Neural Repair 10.1177/1545968313517755 ...

For those patients who continue to suffer, minimally invasive techniques to lesion brain and spine pain processing systems may be considered. Our lab (NIH 5R01NR018481) is currently performing a ...