{"id":234634,"date":"2026-04-04T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-causes-chronic-pain-scientists-identify-key-culprit-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:10:11","slug":"what-causes-chronic-pain-scientists-identify-key-culprit-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-causes-chronic-pain-scientists-identify-key-culprit-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"What Causes Chronic Pain? Scientists Identify Key Culprit in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-causes-chronic-pain-scientists-identify-key-culprit-in-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly identified brain circuit may hold the key to understanding why some pain fades while other pain lingers long after injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly identified brain circuit may hold the key to understanding why some pain fades while other pain lingers long after injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}