Does that hurt? Objective way to measure pain being developed at Stanford
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 17:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a first step toward developing a diagnostic tool that could eliminate a major hurdle in pain medicine the dependency on self-reporting to measure the presence or absence of pain. The new tool would use patterns of brain activity to give an objective physiologic assessment of whether someone is in pain.