We recently had the opportunity to chat about pain psychology, her work in reducing chronic pain, and the future of personalized medicine and where pain psychology fits in. I hope you find that her ...
Like physical pain, your ability to manage emotional pain can vary. But also like physical pain, it helps to have tools to ...
A few years ago, I was sitting outside with my neighbor Paul. He’s in his seventies now, the kind of man who still mows his lawn in perfect rows and waves at everyone who passes by. But over the past ...
I sat across from a friend at dinner last year and told her everything was great. The job was good. The kids were good. Life was busy but fine. She nodded and moved on to the next topic, and I felt ...
Remember that awful breakup from years ago? For some people, just thinking about it doesn’t just bring back bad feelings — it actually hurts. Like, physically hurts. That’s not being dramatic or ...
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A new study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, challenges the long-held view of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a fear-based disorder. In the study, 68% of trauma-exposed ...
Chronic back pain appears to amplify everyday sensory experiences, including sound. Brain scans reveal altered activity in ...
Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is wrong. When it’s acute, it tends to start suddenly, with an obvious cause (like a broken bone) and a standard fix. But chronic pain, experienced ...