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You might try doing some work to distract yourself from a toothache, but the pain will stop you concentrating. Neuroscientists have now collected the first neurobiological clues to the way pain comes to override the brain's cognitive resources. Ulrike Bingel and her colleagues at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany took images of the brains of 16 people who had been asked to identify objects in a series of clear or blurred pictures.