Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why.

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Chapters & Sections (23)

0:00 Pain Threshold Experiments and Ice Water chapter 3
2:01 Cancer Research UK Sponsorship
3:16 Measuring Pain Thresholds with Ice Water
4:34 Ice Water Pain Tolerance Experiment
6:23 The Thermal Grill Illusion Explained chapter 1
8:57 Brain Invents Pain From Temperature Contrast
11:30 Pain as Brain Verdict and Nerve Signals chapter 2
13:17 Pain Definition and Etymology
14:54 Nociception vs Pain and Signal Speeds
17:21 Brain Pain Receptors and Electrical Stimulation chapter 1
19:42 Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
22:09 The Science of Pain and Ion Channels chapter 1
24:00 Human Brains, Pain, and Naming Rights
27:18 The Curse of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain chapter 1
28:54 Leprosy, Pain Perception, and Measurement
32:02 Brain's Descending Pain Control Mechanisms chapter 2
34:13 Oxford Pain Research and Brain Reaction
36:14 Subjective Pain Perception and Measurement
38:29 Brain's Role in Pain Perception and Placebo chapter 4
40:16 Placebo Effect and Brain Constructed Pain
41:51 Social Influence on Pain Perception
43:41 Bullet Ant Venom and Nav1.7 Pain Channels
45:31 Nav1.7 Pain Targeting and Opioid Alternatives

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