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What is Pain?

5 Live Science Podcast

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How to Deal With Chronic Pain

Stephanie Koch is a lecturer in neuroscience at UCL where she studies how we react to pain and touch. She told me why feeling pain is not necessarily a bad thing. A group of patients who are studied actually by another group at UCL and they don't feel pain. They have a genetic mutation within their pain fibers within the skin which means they don't respond to pain. These patients rarely live beyond the ages of 20, 30 because they'll burn themselves and not treat the burn as they don't realize they have it or get sephysemia.

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