Chronic Pain Linked With Psychological Attitude

Only certain back injury patients go on to develop chronic pain due to early changes in the brain related to emotional and motivational behavior.

Interaction rate between the frontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens in the brain, related to emotional and motivational behavior, is a predictor or whether one will develop chronic pain after back injury, a new study finds. Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo/Photos.com