Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site. She holds a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and degrees in neuroscience and dance from the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in The Scientist, Science News, the Mercury News, Mongabay and Stanford Medicine Magazine, among other outlets. Based in NYC, she also remains heavily involved in dance and performs in local choreographers' work.
People with chronic pain are often asked to rate their discomfort on a crude 10-point scale. Now, in a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have shown that the fluctuations in pain severity that patients report can be tied to distinct patterns of activity in their brains.
"These patients have tried everything — they've tried medications, injections, and nothing was working," Shirvalkar said of the first four study participants."The hope is … as we understand this better, we can actually use this information to develop personalized brain stimulation therapies for the most severe forms of pain.
Again, they hoped this biomarker could point towards potential treatments and not be used to supersede patients' subjective experiences, Shirvalkar said.
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