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Pain: The Body's Most Misunderstood Signal

Pain: The Body's Most Misunderstood Signal

Voss, Nathan K.

Paperback

Series: Neuroscience, Book 1

Medical ReferencePain Management

ISBN13: 9798195106300
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One in five adults lives with chronic pain. The science that could help them has existed for decades. Almost none of it has reached them.

Pain is the most common reason people seek medical care, the largest single cause of disability worldwide, and one of the most poorly understood experiences in medicine. For more than three centuries, doctors have operated on a model of pain borrowed from the seventeenth century - the idea that pain is a signal transmitted from damaged tissue to the brain, proportional to the injury, and best treated by finding and fixing the source.

That model is wrong.

In Pain: The Body's Most Misunderstood Signal, Nathan K. Voss draws on the neuroscience of the past sixty years to explain what pain actually is: not a signal from the body, but a construction of the brain - shaped by memory, expectation, fear, social context, and the nervous system's own learned history. A brain that has learned to be in pain can sustain it long after the original injury has healed. And a nervous system that has learned pain can, with the right engagement, begin to unlearn it.

Spanning ten chapters across five parts, this book covers:

- Why the brain builds pain rather than receives it - and what this means for treatment

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