Chronic PainConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 486
May 22, 2020 • 51m
The Central Nervous System Causes Certain Chronic Pain
Guest: Daniel Clauw, M.D, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine (Rheumatology) and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan
Some kinds of chronic pain come from the central nervous system and are real, measurable, and treatable.
Feeling Rejected? Take Ibuprofen
Guest: Roy Baumeister, Professor, Psychology, University of Queensland
We often describe social rejection as pain. We refer to “hurt feelings,” “broken hearts,” and being “crushed.” In a series of studies over the course of more than a decade, social psychologist Roy Baumeister demonstrated that we experience rejection like we experience pain, and we can treat it in the same way.