Is Pain Real? A Journey into a Peculiar, Perplexing and Paradoxical World | Torrance Festival of Ideas

Mark Johnson

Join me on a journey into the peculiar, perplexing, and paradoxical world of pain. I will challenge the belief that pain always signals tissue damage, show how we can trick the brain to alleviate pain, and ultimately, address the question ‘Is Pain Real?’

Professor and Director of the Centre for Pain Research at Leeds Beckett University, U.K., Mark Johnson has been investigating pain since the mid-1980s focussing on how non-pharmacological techniques such as electricity, acupuncture, laser, and mirrors alleviate pain to improve well-being.

  • Start: 24 April 2021
  • End: 24 April 2021
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  • Location: N/A , , United States
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