Contextual control of conditioned pain tolerance and endogenous analgesic systems
The mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic pain are unclear but may involve the persistence or strengthening of pain memories acquired in part through associative learning. Contextual cues, which comprise the environment in which events occur, were recently described as a critica...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2022-03-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/75283 |