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The Brain A Tiny Key to a Terrible Lock (article)

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I came across this article in "Discover Magazine" on pain. Scientists have traced chronic pain to a defect in one enzyme in a single region of the brain. Could this be a decisive turn in the battle against pain? It's on two pages.

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