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Turning off the brain’s ‘pain center’ could finally bring relief to millions of chronic nerve pain suffers, study finds

About 10 percent of the population lives with chronic nerve pain  Neuropathic is especially hard to treat and its burning, numbness and stinging don’t respond well to opioids  Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital discovered a central group of neurons where pain and touch get interpreted in the brain  By turning these ‘off’ they brought relief...