Hungry Mice Feel Less Pain

University of Pennsylvania researchers have identified a group of just 300 neurons in the brain that act to prioritize hunger over long-term inflammatory pain, and could represent new targets for developing pain therapies.  The neurons, identified in mice, are activated when an animal is hungry, effectively dampening pain associated with chronic inflammation, so that the animal can answer to competing physiological cues to find or take in nourishment. What the neurons don’t do is dimi