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Duke scientists may have just discovered a way to ‘switch off’ pain in your body

  • May 28, 2020
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Scientists have discovered that they can completely shut down pain by targeting an area in our old friend the amygdala. If music activated this area, would it support other long-standing evidence that "music...soothes the savage beast"? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200518145008.htm The original journal article in Nature may be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0632-8



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