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Reward learning in the development and maintenance of chronic back pain
Li-Bo Zhang1, Li Hu1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China.
Cell Reports. Medicine
|July 20, 2022
Abstract:
Treating and preventing chronic pain require our understanding of how it develops and maintains. Löffler et al. (2022)1 demonstrate that distinct operant learning signals in the vmPFC-NAc pathway predict the development and maintenance of chronic back pain.
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