Scientists in The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) have furthered the understanding of how chronic pain functions differently in males and females, including identifying different ways pain begins at the cellular level. Center for Advanced Pain Studies The Center for Advanced Pain Studies is composed of eight founding UT Dallas faculty, affiliate faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center, 12 postdoctoral fellows/research associates and graduate students studying different facets of chronic pain and migraine. Its mission is to elucidate fundamental mechanisms underlying both conditions, as well as to discover novel therapeutics for the treatment of chronic pain. “These paperscover two disparate types of pain that afflict people, differentiated by where the signal originates and how that signal interacts with particular cells to cause pain,” Burton said. “Chronic pain doesn’t go away, so what can be done about it?” Burton said.