{"id":234865,"date":"2026-04-09T06:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/stanford-scientists-discover-hidden-brain-circuit-that-fuels-chronic-pain"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:03:22","slug":"stanford-scientists-discover-hidden-brain-circuit-that-fuels-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/stanford-scientists-discover-hidden-brain-circuit-that-fuels-chronic-pain","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Scientists Discover Hidden Brain Circuit That Fuels Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-scientists-discover-hidden-brain-circuit-that-fuels-chronic-pain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified a previously unknown brain circuit that appears to drive chronic pain, separate from the pathways responsible for immediate, protective pain responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified a previously unknown brain circuit that appears to drive chronic pain, separate from the pathways responsible for immediate, protective pain responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234865","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}