Sean Mackey inflicts pain on people in the hope of learning how to relieve it. Erik Vance gets on the receiving end.
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Erik Vance is a freelancer writer based in Berkeley, California.
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Vance, E. Neuroscience: Shooting pain. Nature 461, 1194–1196 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4611194a
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