Researchers Discover New Means to Erase Pain

Researchers have discovered a new method to relieve pain hypersensitivity. This finding could lead to novel means to alleviate chronic pain. The researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at Universite Laval and Institut universitaire en sante mentale de Quebec (IUSMQ) were inspired by previous work on memory conducted some fifteen years ago. These studies had revealed that when a memory is reactivated during recall, its neurochemical encoding is temporarily ...