Dr. Rachel Zoffness

A good reminder that THE BRAIN 👏🏼 IS CONNECTED 👏🏼 TO THE BODY 👏🏼 100% OF THE TIME 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

(please repeat loudly for the people in the back)
#medsky #neuroskyence 🧠🧪

It's just so good. And latkes in Dec!! 👏🏼👏🏼

Truly? This is a rare condition, one that fascinates me. You're right, not feeling pain is DEFINITELY worse than feeling it. Ultimately, pain's job is to save our lives.

Totally. The gospel needs to be spread!! 👏🏼👏🏼

WOW. So sorry to hear this. Kudos to you for figuring out your Pain recipe and getting on top of it... so many never do. Keep fighting!! 💪🏼🙏🏼

🛑 SIGNS A PROVIDER HASNT BEEN TRAINED IN PAIN
❌ blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌ recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌ fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌ targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON

📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS 👏🏼👏🏼
#neuroskyence #medsky #psychsky 🧪

Perhaps too late for an opinion, but I 10000% vote you do it. Who needs Truth + real science more than the poor folks who listen to these ridiculous podcast hosts promoting pseudoscience? People need to hear your message. Use them for their platform. 🔥🔥🔥

Whether or not anyone from your family of origin understands, likes, approves of, or loves the identity you've carved out for yourself as you've healed, I want you to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you are absolutely worth being proud of, affirming, & celebrating.

Preach. 🙏🏼

Nice to see you on here!! I hope to get to this conference next year...

Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”

www.nber.org/papers/w28494

Very cool. Congrats Matt!!!! 🌟

One of the most important day to day-- minute to minute!-- tasks of trauma recovery is watching for your abusers' & bullies' words coming from your mouth or going through your head.

Don't let that sh*t slide. Scratch the record every single time you notice it happening.

You heard it?? I am honored!! Swoon 😍

Pain Education & Treatment with Dr. Zoffness Dr. Zoffness is a pain psychologist, international speaker, author, and thought-leader in pain medicine. She believes that effectively supporting people with pain means bridging the gap between medici...

Hi Emily! I'm a pain scientist researching & treating chronic pain. I teach at Stanford & UCSF, write science books, and am a huge #SciComm nerd. Website: zoffness.com. Thanks for doing this & for adding me! 🙏🏼

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It feels dismissive, I know. It's only because we've all been misled about what pain really is and how it's really made. Injury and illness matter - and they matter A LOT. But when it comes to PAIN, a zillion other factors matter, too. Hang in. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

THANK YOU @mfilling.bsky.social @evp82.bsky.social and team 🙌

Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.

🔥 Most important paper I've read all year🔥
👉 Injury/disease doesn't reliably predict pain
👉 Biomarkers alone can't explain pain
👉 PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably determine chronic pain
👉 Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome & nice to see you here 👋🏼🙏🏼

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Grad Resources Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

It was not that long ago that clinical trials enrolled mainly (or all) men, or that animal studies only used male mice. It was not that long ago that the NIH determined the need to focus research on women.

www.science.org/content/arti...

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“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Excellent career advice from Peter Hotez journals.plos.org/plosbiology/.... Also some good stuff here for universities to consider in the face of current challenges.

Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice - Nature Communications How itch and pain, which are similar but distinct, are processed in the brain remains unclear. Here, the authors show modality-specific neural circuits between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ...

New study finds that pain and itch are processed by specific neurons in the cingulate cortex. I wonder what that means for theories that say that anything in these areas should be considered interoception? 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human echolocation can be taught Neuroscientist Lore Thaler explains why she thinks people with visual impairments should be taught to explore the world through mouth-click sounds.

Echolocation: "It’s very learnable"

"Neuroscientist Lore Thaler runs workshops to teach people how to echolocate."