13 Apr 2025

Dan Baumgardt: How the brain can switch off pain

From Sunday Morning, 10:27 am on 13 April 2025

Around 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Are there any solutions on the horizon? Why is pain often so persistent? Dr Dan Baumgardt is both a GP and a lecturer in neuroscience and physiology at the University of Bristol. He joins Jim to discuss the science of pain.

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Photo: Courtesy of: Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Reference Number: 1/2-013096G; Photographer: Henry Armytage Sanders.