Chronic Pain: A Podcast with Gary Lewin

Published on September 5, 2024

When we hurt ourselves, it hurts. This pain tells us that something is wrong. But how does it arise? And what happens in the body with chronic pain?

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“A difficult part of chronic pain is that other people have a hard time understanding how you're actually doing because you can't see the pain”, says neurobiologist Prof. Gary Lewin. In the current episode of “Research Quartet”, he is talking about his research. He heads the Molecular Physiology of Somatic Sensation lab at the Max Delbrück Center.

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