New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions

A new study led by UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) shows that targeting emotional processing is key to treating and managing chronic pain.

The study is based on a randomised controlled trial led by Professor Sylvia Gustin and Dr Nell Norman-Nott, both from UNSW and NeuRA. Along with a team at NeuRA’s Centre for Pain IMPACT, they published their results today in JAMA Network Open.

The trial showed that enhancing the brain’s capacity for emotional processing through…

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