Pain is at the heart of legal areas from tort to torture, and yet legal decision-makers may be relying on scientifically outmoded concepts of pain and its effects. This Symposium will bring together legal and medical experts to discuss:

• Recent scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of pain, including long-term neurological changes
• The complicated relationship between pain and emotion, and how studying how physical and emotional pain are represented in the brain can help us understand their similarities and differences
• How updated understanding of the neuroscience of pain can help improve legal outcomes—and where the limits are

For more details, visit: http://clbb.mgh.harvard.edu/painsymposium/