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Scientists decipher brain signals behind chronic pain

HEALTH Chronic pain can be very difficult to treat, even though it has such great implications for those who live their lives with it.

One of the problems is understanding how chronic pain is communicated to the brain, especially in those patients who do not experience benefit from the usual treatments. But now

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