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Article: Picturing Your Pain: Dr. Catherine Bushnell Looks at How Pain Manifests Itself in the Brain.
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- Ascribe Higher Education News Service
- Article date:
- May 16, 2002
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Byline: McGill University
MONTREAL, May 16 (AScribe News) -- Pain is complex and often frustrating. It usually has a definite cause, like a stubbed toe or an infected tooth but sometimes it can just strike out of the blue. A harmless breeze on the face can send some people into fits of excruciating pain. Others can even be irritated by the clothes on their back. This kind of unexpected and seemingly inexplicable pain is labelled "neuropathic" and occurs due to some sort of malfunction in the nerves. Dr. Catherine Bushnell, McGill University Harold Griffith professor of Anesthesia and Professor of Dentistry and Physiology, explores this mysterious type of pain and ...