🧠 How the brain encodes pain:
Between people: unstable. Within people: robust.
That is the central finding of our new paper in PLOS Biology.
A strong case for more longitudinal and personalized approaches to pain biomarkers.
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Neural encoding of pain is robust within but unstable between individuals
Pain varies both within and between individuals, even when sensory input remains constant. This study shows that brain signals robustly track intra-individual pain fluctuations, but are less sensitive...