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Pain clinical specialist serving US Veterans. Informed by research examining embodied predictive processing, active inference and the Bayesian brain. Father/husband/USAF veteran. Resident of America’s Finest City™️
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“Resist the urge to find a structural target. Rather, listen carefully, thoughtfully and deeply. Explore their concerns and engage their beliefs. Only once you begin to connect with them on a human level should you start the process of updating their generative model, at a pace of their choosing.”

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I’ve often wondered if it’s more of what I don’t say than what I do say that matters most when helping healthcare consumers improve their understanding of pain and self-management skills. www.petalcollaboration.org/uploads/1/4/...

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“Ketamine can also alter top-down modulation through psychological dissociation...” Beyond the established anti-nociceptive role opioids play in modulating pain perception, how do we assess the impact of their dissociative effects? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Friston’s FEP is, without a doubt, one of the more complex ideas I’ve attempted to comprehend on more than just a superficial level, and I’ve found these papers helpful along the way: gershmanlab.com/pubs/free_en... www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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I personally enjoy reading a wide variety of writing styles, but they have a point asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Does Active Inference Provide a Comprehensive Theory of Placebo Analgesia? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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what role might AI serve in our ongoing process of developing more effective care models for helping people in pain? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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excellent read if you’re interested in learning more about future directions in cognitive and computational neuroscience direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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New grad physio reading list: Aches and Pains - Louis Gifford Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo - Ian Harris How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett Being You - Anil Seth Explain Pain Supercharged - Moseley/Butler The Embodied Mind - Varela, Thompson, Rosch

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Two of the more concerning phenomena in healthcare: a surgeon with an open OR and a boat payment to make, and a researcher trying to prove themselves right.

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“I know enough to know that I don’t know enough” -mpc

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