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Stephani Sutherland

California, Long Beach
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Neuroscientist, freelance journalist covering chronic pain, COVID @SciAm @newscientist; #scicomm for @a2cps_pain; teaching @pomonacollege; she/hers

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A researcher’s 50-year hunt for the source of chronic pain

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By Stephani Sutherland
| Aeon Verified
Listen to this essay 28 minute listen One night in 2000, Allan Basbaum was at the Pierre Hotel on Central Park, wearing a tuxedo after presenting a neuroscience award to one of his colleagues before a roomful of scientists, Nobel laureates among them. His wife, Carol, a cancer biologist, had accompanied him from San Francisco, where they both ran laboratories at the University of California. Late that night, he was struck by agonising stomach pain.
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Signal then storm - Stephani Sutherland

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By Stephani Sutherland
| QOSHE
Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped by Stephani Sutherland  BIO Detail from Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (1930, full image below) by Piet Mondrian. Courtesy Zurich Art Gallery/Wikipedia is a neuroscientist and science communicator covering pain and health research. She lives in California, US.
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Chronic pain could be eased by learning to regulate negative emotions

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By Stephani Sutherland
| New Scientist Verified
Learning how to regulate negative emotions like anxiety could ease chronic pain. Scientists have found that a form of therapy that partly focuses on tolerating distress relieved ongoing discomfort more effectively than existing treatments. “Chronic pain is more than a sensory experience, it’s incredibly emotional,” says Nell Norman-Nott at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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