Getting to the root of pain, with pain researcher Malaika Mahmood

Malaika Mahmood is an expert on pain. She studies not just how pain is registered by our nerves at the site of injury, but how it is processed in the brain. Pain perception is complex and involves multiple brain regions working together, including those that process emotion and control movement and action. It's no wonder that chronic pain can make us depressed - in fact, it can even rewire our brains long-term. Malaika is studying pain in mouse models to better understand which brain cells and brain regions are involved in pain processing, and how we might harness the brain's own power to soothe pain.