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Is Pain an Emotion?

13/02/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Exchanges at the Frontier, Is Pain an Emotion?

Irene Tracey known as the Queen of Pain shows how the brain can be easily tricked

Irene Tracey is known as the Queen of Pain and she inflicts pain on Claudia Hammond to show how easily the brain can be tricked.

Professor Irene Tracey is known as the Queen of Pain. Her work demonstrates how simple pain can develop into chronic pain, how our emotions can override the effect of pain killers and what anaesthesia can tell us about consciousness.

Image credit: Dental Instruments, Wellcome Library, London

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