Reposted by Marian Boor
🚀 Preprint on how pain is influenced through the pursuit of motivational goals 🚀
Really smart paradigm & important results on opioidergic brain mechanisms. By @asankleo.bsky.social - my brilliant brother.
Lab of @christianbuchel.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The pursuit of motivational goals reduces pain through an opioidergic mechanism
Pain promotes protective behavior but can interfere with other biologically important goals. Survival may require overcoming pain to obtain rewards, secure resources or escape danger, yet evidence for...