From: monstoor@spammedia.com   
      
   On 11/10/2025 02:02, JAB wrote:   
      
   > J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural   
   > basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the   
   > brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching   
   > the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better   
   > understand chronic pain and lead to new, more efficacious treatments.   
   >   
   > https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-neurons-brainstem-may-   
   old-key-treating-chronic-pain   
   Most interesting. Forwarded this to my wife, who suffers from just such   
   pain.   
      
   Cheers,   
   --   
   Rob   
   "I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational   
   in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary   
   to prove it at all." - Avon, Blake's 7   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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