Routine Checkup: The Science Of Pain

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CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Pain researchers have a joke that when someone is asked to rate their pain from 1 to 10, the most common response is 11. Dr. Jeffrey Mogil, a neuroscientist and pain researcher interested in how genetics, social factors and sex differences affect pain, believes this joke to be based in truth. Dr. Mogil heads the Pain Genetics Lab at McGill University & is the founder and Director of NAPS, the North American Pain School. This week he joins the fellas and schools them all about the science of pain and it's absolutely fascinating!

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0:00.0	You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series?
0:05.5	You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes.
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0:29.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:36.9	And we're sitting up here
0:38.3	We go to please get all in our eyes down
0:42.3	We go to please get all in order to
0:45.3	We go to please there all in love it is down
0:49.3	We want to please there
0:52.3	And we're not yeah
0:53.3	We go to place there All in God is still We go We're sitting down, and pain, we're interested in pain, interested in how
1:09.9	pain. He heads. He heads to affect pain. He heads the pain genetics
1:13.0	lab at McGillian University and is the founder and director of NAPS, which sounds a lot cuter than it is.
1:20.7	It does sound very cute. It does sound fucking cute. NAPS stands for the North American Pain School.
1:28.4	Nothing cute about pain, I don't think.
1:30.8	Although, who knows, Jeffrey, you might change my tone on that.
1:34.9	I guess let's, okay, you know what?
1:37.9	I was going to like maybe hold on to this until a little bit later, but I can't.
1:42.3	I have to ask you, before we get into like,
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