Healing pain by treating the mind, with Tor Wager, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Embrace the Pain, Don't Fear It
The more you fear the pain, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to change how we conceptualize pain in the first place. Much of your work has focused on finding brain bio mark s for pain. Are you able to look at a functional mri image of a person's brain and tell whether they're experiencing pain? Yes and no. The picture is a lot more complicated than just an immediate experience.
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