Dr. Paul Hansma

In this video, Dr. Paul Hansma, Professor at UC Santa Barbara, shares why longer symptom duration can actually make recovery easier, and what the science reveals about the most effective ways to shift those patterns.

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STUDIES MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW

1. The Apkaring reference is a landmark study showing, with fMRI, how the development of chronic pain involves shifts in brain activity to include more emotional centers. You can read it here.

2. The JAMA psychiatry study, also known as the Boulder Study is a ground breaking study with two controls and fMRI imaging of changes associated with recovery. 66% of the people in the arm of the study that got Pain Reprocessing Therapy were pain-free or nearly pain-free (pain 0 or 1 on a 0 to 10 scale) by the end of the one month study. PRT focuses, as you know, on decreasing the fear associated with sensation. You can read it here.

3. The Ly paper shows that decreasing anxiety with biofeedback is associated with decreasing pain. You can read it here.

4. The neural circuit activity paper shows that human brain organoids fire in repetitive patterns without any sensory input (ever!). You can read it here.