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Feb 2022
54m 24s

Yoni Ashar on Neuroplastic Pain

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About this episode

Yoni Ashar is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist. Yoni’s research uses brain imaging and other tools to understand how beliefs and emotions influence health, especially pain, and to develop novel neuroscience-based treatments for chronic pain. Yoni is a post-doctoral associate at Weil-Cornell Medicine and completed his doctorate at the University of Colorado. 

In this episode, Eric and Yoni Ashar discuss the indicators of and evidence-based treatment for Neuroplastic Pain.

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Yoni Ashar and I Discuss Neuroplastic Pain and…

  • The indicators of Neuroplastic Pain
  • The difference between Short Term vs Chronic Pain
  • Where the body pain lives in the brain
  • The evolutionary role of pain in life
  • The #1 thing that drives the Neuroplastic Pain network
  • How you can eliminate pain by changing various mind-brain pathways
  • The 3 habits that trigger fear and exacerbate pain
  • Evidence-based ways to treat Neuroplastic Pain
  • The problems that come from the brain’s misperception of threat to the body
  • Somatic Tracking
  • Ways to pay attention without fear
  • Corrective Experience
  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

Yoni Ashar’s Links:

Yoni’s Website

Twitter

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Yoni Ashar you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Living with Chronic Pain with Sarah Shockley

Living with Chronic Illness with Toni Bernhard

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