PACAP

Connection Between Chronic Pain and Anxiety Disorders

NEUROSCIENCE NEWSSEPTEMBER 1, 2016Sumay: Researchers provide new insight into
the little understood connection
between chronic pain and anxiety.

Source: University of Vermont.

New research provides insight into a long-observed, but little-understood connection between chronic pain and anxiety and offers a potential target for treatment. The study’s findings, published as an Article in Press inBiological Psychiatry, show that increased expression of PACAP – a peptide neurotransmitter the body releases in response to stress – is also increased in response to neuropathic pain and contributes to these symptoms.