The Neuroscience of Chronic Pain: How Our Brain Predicts And Creates A Biology of Pain with Dr. Howard Schubiner

What 2 Neuroscience Features Will Reinforce chronic pain and make it habitual?

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Howard Schubiner, board certified in pediatrics, adolescent medicine, internal medicine and a leading voice in the mind body medicine field. 

We’ll be discussing how the brain regulates and generates a wide range of chronic symptoms, from pain to fatigue to anxiety and how to understand when these symptoms are mind-body related. 

His research and clinical experience led him to develop therapies that help to effectively "unlearn" these chronic symptoms by addressing the underlying neural circuits and emotional factors driving these psychophysiological conditions. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Predictive processing and the brain’s role in chronic pain
• The role of emotional injuries and neural circuit pain in chronic conditions
• How pain can become habitual and reinforced by fear and conditioned responses
• Why you should treat the brain like a child and the principle of graded exposure
• How Internal Family Systems can be used to address fear and anger towards sensations and pain

For more information and show notes, please visit our website: https://biologyoftrauma.com/biology-of-trauma-podcast/