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Heart Attack
Where's your pain? New insights into how the brain processes pain location
April 10th, 2007
Is that pain in your chest a heart attack or indigestion' New research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine reveals that more areas of the brain than previously thought are involved in determining the location of pain. Spatial aspects of pain are a common problem in diagnosis, said Robert Coghill, Ph.D., senior researcher on the study and a neuroscientist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Patients cannot always distinguish pain from indigestion and pain from a heart attack, for example. Pain from a nerve injury is often felt at sites other than at the injury. And, in some cases, an injury on one side of the body results in pain on both...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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