Dr. Anna Lembke, a medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, joins us to discuss the neuroscience of pleasure, why our bodies crave it, and the consequences of overconsumption.
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Chronic pain is all in your head – but it’s still real
Dr. Haider Warraich joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why there’s more to understanding pain than what’s measurable.
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The scientists who couldn’t help their own daughter
Daniel Engber, senior editor at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss the parents – one a bioengineer in regenerative medicine and another a specialist in rehabilitation robotics – who found they had to rethink their life’s work to help their young daughter after an accident.
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The Politics Of Pain
This hour, we’ll talk about how our inability to agree on this most basic feeling has led to differences of opinion on legal issues with Keith Wailoo, vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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Mitigating The Migraine
We’ll talk about new insights into these often debilitating episodes with Greg Dussor, a leading migraine researcher from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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How We Think About Pain
This hour, we’ll talk about how the way we think about pain has changed through the centuries with the author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers.
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