Researchers Discover Key to How Pain Memories Are Stored

Different people react differently to pain. Some can’t even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, every step is a deliberate and agonizing choice. Whether pain is caused by arthritic joints, a nerve injury or a disease like fibromyalgia, research now suggests there are new solutions chronic pain sufferers.

A team of researchers led by McGill neuroscientist Terence Coderre, an affiliate of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Quebec, Canada, has found the key to understanding how memories of pain are stored in the brain. The researchers also are able to suggest how these memories can be erased as a means of easing chronic pain. For more information, click here to read the full release.