Many of us with chronic pain have noticed that when we get deeply involved in a task that requires concentration, we don't notice our pain as much. I always figured that was because we were focusing our minds on the task at hand rather than on the pain. But according to the findings of a recent two-part study published in the journal Current Biology, when our minds are engaged in a difficult mental task, our bodies actually send fewer pain signals to our brains.
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