About 20 percent of adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain. Scientists hope new research translates into new options for relief. Read new article from ScienceNews here!
“The idea that your brain is actively creating pain, turning it up and down, facilitating spinal cord signaling of pain or dampening it, is really kind of a revelation over the past few decades,” says Wager, of Dartmouth. And it’s an idea that’s just beginning to percolate into mainstream medicine.