Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab
Dartmouth College
Listen here! The chronic pain segment begins @ 47:00.
Many Canadians suffer from debilitating chronic back pain, affecting their work, relationships and even mental health. We hear from researchers about a treatment called pain reprocessing therapy, which could offer some sweet relief by re-framing that pain in our minds.
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After an injury, brain circuits can become hypersensitive to prevent you from getting hurt again, says Tor Wager, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Dartmouth College and senior author of the 2022 JAMA Psychiatry study.
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Tor Wager, the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, helps lead Dartmouth’s Breaking the Neural Code academic cluster, which includes research on how placebos affect patients who are feeling pain. “We study how the brain creates mental models, belief structures, that then guide how we experience the world, and in particular how we experience pain,” Wager says.