What Is Pain? | Diving Into The Complex Field Of Pain Research
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Pain is a complicated and subjective experience that varies greatly from person to person. Arguably one of the most significant human health problems, pain is a signal from your nervous system indicating something isn't right – and as we all know, it is a deeply unpleasant feeling.
In this episode, we sit down with Jeffrey Mogil, the E. P. Taylor Chair in Pain Studies at McGill University's Department of Psychology. As someone who has always been fascinated by the science of pain, Jeffrey focuses his research on the nervous system mechanisms that mediate the perception and inhibition of pain.
What fascinating discoveries has Jeffrey made in the field of pain science? Jump in now to find out…
In this conversation, we cover:
- Statistics related to chronic pain.
- The main reasons why people have chronic pain.
- How to characterize different types of pain.
- The scales that researchers use to quantify pain.
- How various pain drugs work.
To learn more about Jeffrey and his research, click here!
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| 0:00.0 | So most chronic pain is probably due to some accidents or trauma or infection or disease that you |
| 0:10.6 | got. It's just that most people heal up just fine from those incidents and some people don't |
| 0:18.8 | and the pain from the original injury or the original disease state just persists long after |
| 0:25.6 | most other people would have recovered. And so on the one hand, well, what causes chronic pain? |
| 0:29.7 | Well, inflammation and image, you know, secondary to these sorts of insults. But on the other |
| 0:34.7 | hand, the real question is, yeah, but why does it cause chronic pain in them when everyone |
| 0:39.0 | else is okay? And of course, that's the thing we really don't know the answer to. |
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| 1:24.8 | Foundation. I guess it is Jeffrey Mogel. He's the EP Taylor chair in pain studies at the |
| 1:31.1 | McGillian University. That's so we had to talk about hyper-indulence and the underlying |
| 1:35.2 | mechanisms, the genetics of pain. So Jeff, thank you for coming. Oh, my pleasure. Nice to be here. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, what's that you interested in telling us to any pain? It's kind of a funny thing that |
| 1:45.4 | you're something we can make fun of. It's like, oh, you're like pain, don't you? Can we study it? |
| 1:49.3 | Yeah, whenever I tell people that I was an editor at the journal pain, they all immediately |
| 1:55.2 | think of one thing and find it hilarious. Yeah, I got into it by accident. Thought I was |
| 1:59.5 | interested in reward systems, pleasure systems in the brain. That's what I was first exposed to |
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