The Science of Pain

Pain is the most common reason for a visit to the doctor’s office. Allan I. Basbaum, Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Anatomy, presents the most current scientific understanding behind common pain disorders. Recorded on 12/06/2011. [3/2012] [Show ID: 23157]
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[@gbernardwandel4174]

I keep coming back to this lecture I have been listening to it for years A year or so may pass and then I come back

[@carolynrosser1574]

After 40 years of chronic pain I am finally getting relief as the knowledge that “pain lies mainly in the brain “ is becoming more widely known and understood. Medication can help but until you believe that the pain is not really in the body tissues you only end up hooked on painkillers, not fixing the source of the pain. Thank you for your terrific seminar.

[@ThePropaganda4]

It’s crazy how so few people do not realise that the best pain killer is not a pill but knowledge like this

[@mlcarey1000]

Watching this in 2014, was my first attempt to understand Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It provided me with a platform to discuss symptoms with pain mgmt doctors that upped my level of therapeutic care. I was referred to the Stanford PM Clinic for an intermodal, 5 physician, appointment. I thank Dr Busbaum for his excellent lecture. It changed my life and PM journey.

[@margaretgilbert727]

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[@Gpacharlie]

Dr. Basbaum I am sorry that you have a chronic problem with you right arm. I suppose that when it comes to understanding pain we should be thankful that you hurt. We know that empathy can be an inspiration at a high level. I am not happy that you hurt yourself but I am thankful that you have been inspired to investigate and then educate on pain. May God bless your work.

[@decumoose]

Got cancer ,getting addicted to MST is not a worry to me at all . Pallative care is improving thankfully.

[@Ruouiji]

Brilliant as always! I have heard from so many, that doctors refuse to prescribe meds for pain to the patients. Well, according to The Patient's Bill of Rights, they have to! Th e medial industry needs to be reminded who is the boss, and it's not them!

[@lacondesa7727]

Due to fibro I felt pain from everything I touched from the bed sheets to wearing undergarments so much that I often wept. It was excruciating and no one believed me. For 6 months I remained home naked.

[@teresachristian8026]

Thank you Dr. Lots of great information!

[@faanross]

Excellent, excellent lecture. Though you did touch on some moot points you are clearly a master of your trade and have provided some clear and though-provoking insights. Thank you Dr,

[@zryanhassan713]

I really appreciate your PowerPoint presentation, please how I can have access to all his PowerPoint presentation regarding pain management!? Plz

[@lacondesa7727]

Once I had constipation so bad that I thought I was going to die. It felt like child birth. I thought if I pushed harder would die.

[@PhantomLyric]

"pain is not a stimulus, it's a perception" -- how would you apply that logic to neuropathic pain?

[@sourichitsazzadeh2629]

Excellent lecture .

[@lizgibbon1608]

Fantastic - so much information - this helps me understand my 11 years of suffering so much better... Thank you so very much

[@tberkok]

very clear and detailed just enough

[@cor3944]

I was searching for non chemical painkillers. Maybe sonographic methods, acupression, auto hypnosis on producing own endorphins..

[@charlessoukup1111]

So I gotta just THINK my pain away??! It's that Easy?? Can't find the damn instruction manual!

[@trebors69nc17]

FYI.@1:24 Heroin is diacetylmorphine, not dimethylmorphine. Incidentally, heroin is legal in the UK for pain treatment.

[@vjblind]

amazing video i wonder about an other topic : any clue about trigeminal neuralgia and Vascular algebra of the face or “cluster headache”:?

[@arshadshameed9889]

Thank ypu

[@rawdonwaller]

I think that, notwithstanding the attempt to discuss this topic in a way that has broader appeal, describing pain as an 'interpretation' invites a little more rigorous evaluation, lest confusion besets us. The speaker cannot mean 'interpret' in the sense that one 'interprets' a painting in a gallery, or a cryptic note left by one's partner on a bedside drawer. 'Interpretation' in the context of experiencing pain is surely far less purposeful or consciously effortful than the aforementioned types of cognitively demanding, sophisticated types of interpretation. Failure to make this distinction makes it seem that experiencing pain is a choice, almost a moral failing. But such a conclusion is absurd.

[@mrardeemrardee8566]

by the way thanks for this

[@eppystein2953]

Acupuncture doesnt work. Dry needling surely does.

[@lkcuupa]

Wow I was given gabapentin

[@turnitupmike]

41mins to 44 mins indirectly is a classic example why mass medication like Flouride in water or other population wide approaches have no place. Dose and systemic treatment have too many varibilities

[@JesseHarshbarger]

Is hypnosis blocked by the drug naloxone?

[@faanross]

+Jesse Harshbarger No it does not, this was proven experimentally in 1975 - please see "Failure of the opiate antagonist naloxone to modify hypnotic analgesia" by Goldstein and Hilgard.

[@JohnSiple]

Repeat student's questions for home audience?

[@maryoltmans3096]

We

[@turnitupmike]

41mins to 44 mins indirectly is a classic example why mass medication like Flouride in water or other population wide approaches have no place. Dose and systemic treatment have too many varibilities