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Ep. 045|Pain, The Brain & Emotional Learning| Melissa Farmer

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Chronic Pain

Sally Kohn: I'm looking forward to unpacking the brain a little bit and pain as it's one of those topics that whoever you speak to about it, whatever their background. So before we get on to acute pain and chronic pain, can you maybe give us a little brief rundown of pain and how it is of benefit for us actually to experience pain?Kohn: Chronic pain isn't necessarily the body malfunctioning. It's doing the right thing, but just not necessarily doing it in the right way. And so that lens of adaptivity really helped me make sense of the meaning, the use, the utility of these different symptoms.

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