Dr. Rachel Zoffness
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first heard Jul 2026
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I mean, it's maddening in a way because it's just this reminder that the brain is always using all available data in every single moment of our lives.
And people with chronic pain know that because people with chronic pain will tell me
that their pain will change over the course of an hour, a day, a month.
And that's because all of these factors are always coming together to change the pain experience.
Of course people would think that, and that makes good sense.
So I want to clear this up once and for all.
The parts of the brain that make emotions also make pain.
Our limbic system, our amygdala, those are critical parts of the pain machinery.
And what we actually know about pain is that 100% of the sensory messages from the body filter through our brain's emotion machinery before they become the thing we call pain.
Pain is never all in your head.
Pain is never purely psychological.
Pain is both physical and emotional 100% of the time.
Right.
So if listeners remember nothing else from today's podcast, I hope they remember this word biopsychosocial.
And I want to say clearly, this is not my pet invention.
I did not come up with this.
Neuroscience has known for 65 years.
that pain is never a purely biomedical phenomenon, something to do just with bones and body parts.
Pain is more complex and beautiful and nuanced than that.
So if you imagine a Venn diagram with three overlapping circles, we have bio on the top, biological factors that contribute to pain,
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