{"id":3620,"date":"2023-05-23T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:40:02","slug":"brain-signals-underlying-chronic-pain-could-be-short-circuited-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Brain Signals Underlying Chronic Pain Could Be \u2018Short-Circuited,\u2019 Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists uncovered a &#8220;biomarker&#8221; for chronic pain in the brains of four patients and are using the data to develop a new brain stimulation therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3621\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-178.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This X-ray image of one of the study participants shows where recording electrodes (red patches) were implanted into the brain. These implants were used to see how the participant&#8217;s brain activity changed as the severity of their chronic pain shifted through time.\u00a0(Image credit: Prasad Shirvalkar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People with chronic pain are often asked to rate their discomfort on a crude 10-point scale. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have shown that the fluctuations in pain severity that patients report can be tied to distinct patterns of activity in their brains.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/neuroscience\/brain-signals-underlying-chronic-pain-could-be-short-circuited-study-suggests\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/neuroscience\/brain-signals-underlying-chronic-pain-could-be-short-circuited-study-suggests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists uncovered a &#8220;biomarker&#8221; for chronic pain in the brains of four patients and are using the data to develop a new brain stimulation therapy. People with chronic pain are often asked to rate their discomfort on a crude 10-point scale. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have shown that the fluctuations in pain severity that patients report can be tied to distinct patterns of activity in their brains.\u00a0 Read more: https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/neuroscience\/brain-signals-underlying-chronic-pain-could-be-short-circuited-study-suggests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}