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The Mechanisms of Pain and Fever
Pain is incredibly complex and probably worthy of its entire own episode someday if we can figure out how to do that. Pain is just one potential cause of pain. There are a lot of other kinds of nociceptive pain, which is when we have pain from an actual or a threatened situation. And our temperature regulation process is mostly mediated in our brain, but there are a lots of messengers and receptors that are involved in this process. It's going to be fun. I can't wait.