Why do some people suffer more than others, even when the pain is the same? Scientists have uncovered a hidden brain circuit ...

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit linking physical pain to emotional suffering, offering new hope for chronic pain treatment.

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Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Figure 5 demonstrates such identification task for five structures in the left hemisphere (caudate, putamen, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus) using cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical tracts ...

To this end, we use prior anatomical knowledge from NHP tracers to define new generalisable protocols, including the amygdalofugal tract, the Muratoff bundle and the striatal bundle (external capsule) ...

In the past decade, interest has shifted from targeting the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) or posterior subthalamic area (PSA), to targeting white matter tracts of networks involved in ET, such as ...