Noxious stimuli evoke a range of acute and long-lasting sensations, emotions, and behaviors. In this issue of Neuron, Chiang et al. (2020) demonstrate that parallel outputs from the lateral parabrachial nucleus arise from specific cell types with distinct functions in pain.
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