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Neuroscience: Shooting pain

Nature volume 461, pages 1194–1196 (2009)Cite this article

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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