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How do we feel pain?

One day Donald Simone, then a psychology major at Northeastern University, was thumbing through the job listings for work-study students.

He found several choices, including a cafeteria job and one in a neuroscience lab. He decided to try the science lab.

“It was studying eye movements and the parts of the brain that control them in different conditions, for example, darkness,” says Simone. “I went into that lab and ended up loving it. I thought doing anything with the brain was fascinating.” (more…)

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Vibration Helps Reduce Pain in Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged by the prospect that vibration therapies could bring pill-free pain relief to chronic sufferers. (more…)

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