what chemically is happening when you have chronic pain?

Subject: what chemically is happening when you have chronic pain?

Date: Sun Jan 2 22:13:24 2005
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Area of science: Neuroscience
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what happens in your brain to increase what should be acute pain into chronic 
pain (ex. hitting your arm on something that should sharply hurt for two 
seconds, but hurts instead for two minutes)?

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