New article, new podcast, both recommended

[JanAtheCPA]

Brand new article in Nature about research which confirms with neuroscience the already-known (but so far subjective) phenomenon that attitude and motivation significantly affect recovery over physical health outcomes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00509-z (Your brain could be controlling how sick you get — and how you recover)

Recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show with pain psychologist Rachel Zoffness:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/17eks-ezra-klein-podcast-rachel-zoffness.html (Opinion | This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain)

 

[Bonnard]

Hi all,

Following up here:

Rachel Zoffness has an excellent interview that just came out from the show Hidden Brain (host/interviewer is Shankar Vedantam).

She speaks so clearly to the point that pain is a warning signal produced by our brain and that the brain essentially decides what pain signals to send. Also that our brains are evaluating "all available data in every single moment of our lives." Pain is based on all of these factors that our brain evaluates, and there are physical, psychological, and sociological elements.

She gets close but never mentions TMS or Sarno or any of the connected resources. I was waiting for her to go there in some way.
Her website mostly pushes her own books, etc.

Podcast link:

How to Combat Pain - Hidden Brain Media

This week, we look at what's really happening when we experience pain, and how a better understanding of this process can open up new possibilities for treatment and healing.

www.hiddenbrain.org

Show link:

Hidden Brain Podcast

Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world. Our work, led by Host and Executive Editor Shankar Vedantam, is marked by a commitment to scientific and journalistic rigor, and a deep empathy for our...

www.hiddenbrain.org

Rachel Zoffness website:

Pain Education & Treatment with Dr. Zoffness

Dr. Zoffness is a pain scientist, pain psychologist, international speaker, author, and thought-leader in pain medicine. She's an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine and lectures at Stanford. Dr. Zoffness believes that effectively treating chronic pain means bridging the...

www.zoffness.com