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Allan Basbaum on Pain and the Brain

Allan Basbaum at UCSF takes a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction.

Explain Pain audio preview

Reassurance: Help or hinder in the treatment of pain

Reassurance is a frequently recommended intervention for pain and is included in many national practice guidelines for musculoskeletal pain management. Reassurance is usually recommended on the basis of an implicit conceptualisation model that assumes that information presented to patients effectively corrects mistaken beliefs, which reduces fears based on those beliefs, which, in turn, leads to [...]