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Study Claims Progress on Measuring Pain

By Katie DrummondMar 4th 2010 – 3:47PM
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(March 4) -- British researchers say they may have figured out a way to measure pain. The findings in a small study by the researchers at King's College London are the latest in a centuries-old debate over how to, and whether we even can, quantify physical pain. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging...

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Background on fMRI scans

Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) is an MRI procedure that measures brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow.

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