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The brain waves of horses show telltale signs of chronic back pain, researchers in France report.
The assessment of pain, and in particular chronic pain, is a major challenge that remains difficult to solve since there is a subjective emotional and cognitive dimension to it, Mathilde Stomp and her colleagues at the University of Rennes 1 reported in the open-access journal,
PLOS ONE.
Since pain reflects neural activity in the brain, there has been a growing interest in exploring resting-state electroencephalograms (EEGs) for evidence of its presence. An EEG is a test that detects electrical activity in the brain using electrodes placed on the head.