{"id":1173,"date":"2025-03-05T20:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2025-03-06T02:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:54:05","slug":"brain-distinguishes-pain-and-itch-using-separate-neural-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/brain-distinguishes-pain-and-itch-using-separate-neural-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Distinguishes Pain and Itch Using Separate Neural Circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/pain-itch-brain-28463\/\" title=\"Brain Distinguishes Pain and Itch Using Separate Neural Circuits\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a brain and neurons representing pain.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pain-itch-neuroscience-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>A new study reveals that pain and itch are processed by distinct neural circuits in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Researchers identified two types of neurons\u2014one responding to both stimuli and another selectively activated by either pain or itch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that pain and itch are processed by distinct neural circuits in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}