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The New Yorker features Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience's Head of Department Professor Irene Tracey, and her research into the neuroscience of pain.

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New Yorker journalist Nicola Twilley came over to Oxford in February to meet Irene Tracey and find out about her life's work on the neuroscience of pain. She was lucky enough to experience the MRI scanner in our Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, as well as spending some time in the clinical pain testing lab.

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