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I feel your pain

Aging and the Brain, Brain Fitness, Brain Trauma, Injury, BrainHQ, Cognitive impairments, Posit ScienceBy Dr. MerzenichJuly 1, 2020

In the May issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex, a group from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan reported interesting results from a study in which “pain centers” in the brain were shown to be activated by WITNESSING pain afflicted to others. If you see someone being poked with a sharp needle…

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