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Transcript: THE PAIN SCALE
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- World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
- Article date:
- May 25, 1999
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PETER JENNINGS: The specialists in pain management tell us that the
most significant scientific breakthrough in recent years has been
the understanding that pain is connected, as you see there, to certain
parts of the brain. Here's ABC's Deborah Amos.
DEBORAH AMOS, ABC News: (voice-over) This was one of science's oldest
mysteries. It's called the pain illusion.
WOMAN: Ow! DEBORAH AMOS: (voice-over) Touching these warm and cool
bars produces pain even though they're not cold enough or hot enough
to hurt the skin. So where does the pain come from? The answer -
- the brain.
Dr. ...