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The spino-parabrachio-amygdaloid pathway is critical for the manifestation of chronic pain

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Fig. 1: Proposed model of changes in the spino-parabrachio-amygdaloid pathway in the context of chronic pain.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health awards K00NS124190 (TSN) and F32NS128392 (HNA).

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  1. Department of Molecular Pathobiology, NYU Pain Research Center, New York University, New York, NY, 10010, USA

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TSN wrote the manuscript with contributions from HNA. HNA created Fig. 1.

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Nelson, T.S., Allen, H.N. The spino-parabrachio-amygdaloid pathway is critical for the manifestation of chronic pain. Neuropsychopharmacol. 49, 491–492 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01745-7

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