Reward learning in the development and maintenance of chronic back pain.

Cell Rep Med

CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China. Electronic address:

Published: July 2022

Treating and preventing chronic pain require our understanding of how it develops and maintains. Löffler et al. (2022) demonstrate that distinct operant learning signals in the vmPFC-NAc pathway predict the development and maintenance of chronic back pain.

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