{"id":86750,"date":"2019-01-17T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-figured-out-how-to-separate-pain-from-physical-suffering"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:02:49","slug":"scientists-figured-out-how-to-separate-pain-from-physical-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-figured-out-how-to-separate-pain-from-physical-suffering","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Figured Out How to Separate Pain From Physical Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-figured-out-how-to-separate-pain-from-physical-suffering.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to be more precise here and identify the region and the cells that are responsible for pain unpleasantness,\u201d Scherrer tells <em>Inverse.<\/em> \u201cWe thought if we could find the center, or the cells in the brain that make pain unpleasant, perhaps acting on these cells could be a good strategy to reduce pain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/42046-origin-of-pain-men-women-clinical-study\">chronic pain<\/a> patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already established that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25846623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the amygdala<\/a> plays a role in the emotional component of pain, but this team actually found the <em>exact cells<\/em> in the amygdala responsible for those unpleasant pain messages by using a \u201cminiscope,\u201d a tool created by Schnitzer, and observing how mice responded to painful stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>When mice in their experiment were exposed to a drop of scalding water, a given a pinprick, or asked to run along unpleasantly hot tracks, these cells in the amygdala were highly active. Importantly, Schnitzer adds, they didn\u2019t light up when the mice were exposed to other stimuli like sugar water or a bad smell. \u201cEvery time mice were unpleased with the stimulation, we saw that these cells were turned on,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52549-emotional-feeling-of-pain-and-chronic-pain-neuroscience\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52549-emotional-feeling-of-p...uroscience<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe wanted to be more precise here and identify the region and the cells that are responsible for pain unpleasantness,\u201d Scherrer tells Inverse. \u201cWe thought if we could find the center, or the cells in the brain that make pain unpleasant, perhaps acting on these cells could be a good strategy to reduce pain in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86750","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=86750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}