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When Your Brain Turns Down the Pain: Pain and the brain part 3

When Your Brain Turns Down the Pain: Pain and the brain part 324. Feb.28 Min.

Why can stress make pain vanish while a bad mood makes it worse? How your brain turns pain signals up and down through expectation, emotion and context, and why movement, relaxation and social connection change how pain feels.