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Love and Pain, Stanford scientists will answer your questions!

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Sci's not a big celebrator of Valentine's Day. Instead, I prefer to celebrate February 15th, when all the awesome chocolate will be 50% off. If you all are very unlucky I will post photos of the truly massive haul I'm planning.

But for those of you in to Valentine's Day, Stanford has a fun idea. They will have an expert on hand to answer questions about the neuroscience of pain and how love may affect it, and they are asking you to tweet in their questions. Tweet @SUMedicine and include the hashtag #AskSUMed, and see what they have to say! Seems like a fun way to celebrate Valentine's Day with Science!

Scicurious has a PhD in Physiology from a Southern institution. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from another respected Southern institution. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at a celebrated institution that is very fancy and somewhere else. Her professional interests are in neurophysiology and psychiatric disorders. She recently obtained her PhD and is pursuing her love of science and writing at the same time. She often blogs in the third person. For more information about Scicurious and to view her recent award and activities, please see her CV ( http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/a-scicurious-cv/)

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