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New Therapy Quiets Brain’s ‘False Alarms,’ Aims to Cure Chronic Pain

New Therapy Quiets Brain’s ‘False Alarms,’ Aims to Cure Chronic Pain

Update: 2024-01-25
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This episode features a discussion about new and exciting neuroscience-based treatments that are aimed toward recovery from chronic pain. Our guest is Dr. Yoni Ashar, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who shares the promising findings of a study that used pain reprocessing therapy, or PRT, for a sizeable group of chronic back pain sufferers. Dr. Ashar explains how PRT works and how it could offer a pathway to helping to relieve other common chronic pain, including migraine headaches.

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New Therapy Quiets Brain’s ‘False Alarms,’ Aims to Cure Chronic Pain

New Therapy Quiets Brain’s ‘False Alarms,’ Aims to Cure Chronic Pain

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus