Images from an animation appearing in an episode that discusses the physical and psychological impacts that chronic pain can have on people who suffer from it.
Patients with chronic pain may have anatomical alterations within regions involved in cognitive and emotional modulation of pain.
Because sensory and emotional experiences play such a huge role in chronic pain, this is a condition that varies widely between people, depending on the context and meaning of their pain.
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