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2019 Jan 21


Curr Biol


29


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Neuroscience: A Male-Specific Pain Memory Mechanism.

Authors

Shiers S, Price TJ
Curr Biol. 2019 Jan 21; 29(2):R50-R52.
PMID: 30668946.

Abstract

Memories of painful events protect us from danger. A new study demonstrates that, in both mice and humans, pain memories elicited by place conditioning are driven by spinal mechanisms, involve stress circuits and are surprisingly only found in males.