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Article: Pain in the Brain

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March 25, 2008
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Pain is an extremely complicated thing. I assume most of you reading this do not think of pain as complicated. What's so complicated? I hit my thumb with the hammer - it hurts. I stub my toe - it hurts. But what about those soldiers in the field (right at this very moment, perhaps), wounded in battle but not experiencing the feeling of their pain, in order to help out their buddy? At the other extreme, what about those who have lost limbs in some accident or bombing (also, sadly, probably at this very moment), only to continue with pain where the lost appendage used to be (known as "phantom pain")?

The truth is we have very few complete answers. We have some for sure, but we definitely do ...

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