How to hack your brain when you're in pain | Amy Baxter

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Have we misunderstood pain? Researcher and physician Amy Baxter unravels the symphony of connections that send pain from your body to your brain, explaining practical neuroscience hacks to quickly block those signals. Her groundbreaking research offers alternatives for immediate pain relief -- without the need for addictive opioids. (Followed by a Q&A with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:16.8	Hey Ted Listers, it's Dr. Shoshana.
0:19.9	When I imagine pain, it's usually that out-sh moment from smashing my toe on a coffee
0:25.9	table or the pounding in my temples after a long day at work.
0:30.9	But what if we've gotten it all wrong?
0:34.1	In her Ted 2023 talk, pain specialist Dr. Amy Baxter throws us a curveball.
0:41.4	What if pain isn't just an annoying buzzer to shut off, but more like survival 101?
0:49.0	And what if our pain is actually informed by so much more than a single inciting incident?
0:55.5	Take a listen to hear how we may have a bigger say over our aches and twinges than we ever
1:00.4	realized.
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