“Pain is both physical and emotional one hundred percent of the time.” This week, how a better understanding of pain can open up new possibilities for treatment and healing. www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-...

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.

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Nearly two billion people across the globe live with chronic pain. And psychologist Rachel Zoffness says much of that pain is being mistreated. This week, what's really happening when we experience pain, and how to address it. apple.co/3Rsl3io

How to Combat Pain

Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · July 20 · 50m

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This is a beautiful thing. These shelter dogs get to pick their own toys.

Thank you @npr.org People's Pharmacy for the amazing interview + article 🙏🏼 Making change from the ground up!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Show 1476: Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Roadmap for Managing Chronic Pain www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/sho...

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A: 62 Q: how many medical conditions are proven to be caused or worsened by alcohol? www.healio.com/news/psychia...

Review finds 62 diseases 100% attributable to alcohol intake

Injuries, infectious diseases, cancers and liver diseases are partly or fully attributable to alcohol. Some diseases can be reversed or slowed with reduced drinking or abstinence.

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Thank you to Stanford @stanforduniversity.bsky.social for this incredible piece in your Game Changer column on Tell Me Where It Hurts 🙏🏼🔥 💥“If we could teach this to every doctor & healthcare provider, we would absolutely change the face of pain medicine.”💥 longevity.stanford.edu/rachel-zoffn...

Rachel Zoffness on Treating Chronic Pain

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Pain across the lifespan: global and regional reference curves from 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries. Great work @mfilling.bsky.social #PainResearch www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pain across the lifespan: global and regional reference curves from 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries

Pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet no harmonised self-reported reference framework exists to characterise how its burden is distributed across the lifespan and world regions. Here,...

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fascinating episode on pain, like how do amputees still feel leg pain. Armchair Expert link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdk...

Rachel Zoffness (on pain) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Dr. Rachel Zoffness@drzoffness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Recorded an ep of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard & Monica!!!! 🔥🤯 We talked about Tell Me Where It Hurts 📚, the science of pain, Usain Bolt ⚡️, why BDSM can be pleasurable ⛓️, & how emotions adjust pain volume. Listen & share 🙏🏼 #medsky #psychsky Full ep here: armchairexpertpod.com/pods/rachel-...

Check out my latest interview with @sciam.bsky.social this time talking all things pain ❤️‍🩹 with TELL ME WHERE IT HURTS author @drzoffness.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Chronic pain is not just in your head, but it is in your brain

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head

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Recorded an ep of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard & Monica!!!! 🔥🤯 We talked about Tell Me Where It Hurts 📚, the science of pain, Usain Bolt ⚡️, why BDSM can be pleasurable ⛓️, & how emotions adjust pain volume. Listen & share 🙏🏼 #medsky #psychsky Full ep here: armchairexpertpod.com/pods/rachel-...

Rachel Zoffness — Armchair Expert

Rachel Zoffness (Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal) is a psychologist, pain scientist, and author. Rachel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why she was drawn to pain i...

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Scientific American is one of my favorite magazine. Jumped on their podcast, Science Quickly, to talk about the science of pain & healing. There is so much hope beyond pills & procedures. An honor to be in conversation with my fellow nerds!! 🎙️ #medsky 🧪 scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

📣Our bodies hurt more when we're AFRAID 👉🏼 When we're fearful, the amygdala: ⬆️ cortisol ⬆️ muscle tension amplifies the brain's PAIN alarm🚨 👉🏼To lower the pain alarm, it's important to manage our fear of pain. ✨The better we understand pain, the less scary it becomes✨ #painexplained #medsky

All Major Pharma Companies Implicated in Bribery Schemes, New Report Says By Richard Sears Pfizer, J&J, Eli Lilly, BMS, AstraZeneca, GSK, and more all engaged in systematic bribery schemes, according to decades of OECD reports. buff.ly/DyPK3VH

All Major Pharma Companies Implicated in Bribery Schemes, New Report Says

Pfizer, J&J, Eli Lilly, BMS, AstraZeneca, GSK, and more all engaged in systematic bribery schemes, according to decades of OECD reports. That's the Study examines more than two decades of OECD…

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❌ Pain ≠ damage ❌ 🧠 Pain = our brain's OPINION of how much danger we're in based on *all available info* Including: 🔥 injury 🦴 🔥 emotions💧 🔥 Sleep 🛌 🔥 Nutrition🥗 🔥 Memories 🧠 🔥 Context 👉🏼 Pain is a whole person problem requiring a whole person solution 👏🏼🙏🏼 ✨pass it on✨ #medsky #neuroskyence

If you'd ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would've said Oliver Sacks. My favorite medical writer, he died in 2015. I never got to meet him. But yesterday, I met his editor, Kate Edgar, head of the Oliver Sacks Foundation. Nerd dream come true 🧠🫶🏼 @oliversacks.bsky.social 🧪 #medsky

In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon

"It’s a rare book that both expands an issue into a dizzyingly complex problem and offers to solve it. In Tell Me Where It Hurts, pain psychologist and scientist Rachel Zoffness pulls off both." Thank you @sciencenews.bsky.social for this incredible book review 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #MedSky #Neurosky 🧪

Recording the audiobook for Tell Me Where It Hurts 🎙️♥️ How is already 6 weeks away?!?? So not ready 😅 www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...

Join me at ASU for a conversation about the MYTHS of pain medicine - the lies & BS we've been sold, and the true science of healing 🔥🔥🔥 Academics 🧪, science nerds 🧠, and anyone who likes to read 📚welcome!!!! 🤓 MARCH 12 VIRTUAL👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #medsky #neurosky #sciencesky #OncSky #MedEd

#PedSky #MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 Sensory neurons promote bone fracture healing www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mapping somatosensory afferent circuitry to bone identifies neurotrophic signals required for fracture healing

The pain associated with bone fracture is mediated by somatosensory neurons, which also appear to be required to initiate bone regeneration. To characterize neuroanatomical circuitry mediating skeleta...

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Finally some good news 🧀

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia." Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants. The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

Challenge: one random act of kindness every day for the rest of 2025. Can be anything. Hold the door, help someone cross the street, give up your seat on the bus, compliment a stranger, donate to your fave charity, give an extra big tip. Because KINDNESS RULES. 🔥🔥🔥 Welcome to 2026, my friends 🫶🏼♥️✨

Burnout in health care providers is a big issue. It reduces wellbeing and the ability to be effective. (Be kind to your provider!) Encouraging news: In a study of >2,000 providers, the Healthy Minds Program app reduced distress and improved wellbeing 9 mos later. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Digital Well-Being Training With Health Care Professionals

This randomized clinical trial examines whether a 13- week digital well-being training could improve well-being and reduce stress among health care professionals in Mexico.

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👎🏼 It's easy to believe that pain lives just in our aching back or bad knee. 🧠 But neuroscience says pain is constructed by the BRAIN- 💥 including the limbic system, key to constructing EMOTIONS 💥 ‼️ Pain is both physical AND emotional 100% of the time 👏🏼👏🏼 (Pass it on 📣) #medsky 🧪

Hi so I have imposter syndrome & just found out my little book on the science of Pain is being translated into *TWENTY FOUR* languages (including US & UK)?!! Here is the cover in Greek 🤯🤯🥹 Totally tweaking out & so insanely full of gratitude. Happy weekend Bsky 🫶 www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...

📚Been writing a book for the past 3 years about the science of pain & how to heal. I'm nervous AF but also know that the time has come for change- ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now. Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥 www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...

Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal

Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal [Zoffness Ph.D, Dr. Rachel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal

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Upcoming talk for the disability & chronic pain community on the science of pain and how to heal with @birdability.bsky.social - talk is free & accessible to all 💥💥💥 When: Mon 10/20 @ 7pm ET/4pm PT Where: birdability.org Join us!! 🙏🏼 #medsky #neuroskyence #disability #scisky 🧪

Birdability Week starts in ONE WEEK! Join us a week from today to kick off Birdability Week 2025 with an insightful conversation w/ @drzoffness.bsky.social, pain scientist & thought-leader who is reshaping how the world understands and treats pain. Also PRIZES! www.birdability.org/birdability-...