Ben Seymour

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Phasic and tonic pain serve distinct functions during adaptive behaviour

Feb 14, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Shuangyi Tong |Timothy Denison |Danielle Hewitt |Ben Seymour

AbstractPain drives self-protective behaviour, and evolutionary theories suggest it acts over different timescales to serve distinct functions. Whilst phasic pain provides a teaching signal to drive avoidance of new injury, tonic pain is argued to support recuperative behaviour, for instance by reducing motivational vigour.

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