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Aug 2021
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How to Control Your Sense of Pain & Plea...

Scicomm Media
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This episode I discuss our sense of pain and pleasure: where and how they each arise in our mind and body and various ways to control their intensity. I discuss the science of behavioral tools like acupuncture and hypnosis and directed pressure, including the neural circuits they each activate to modulate our experience of pain or pleasure. I also discuss wh ... Show More
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