{"id":214181,"date":"2025-05-17T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/psychological-treatment-linked-to-physical-brain-changes-that-ease-chronic-pain"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:20:15","slug":"psychological-treatment-linked-to-physical-brain-changes-that-ease-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/psychological-treatment-linked-to-physical-brain-changes-that-ease-chronic-pain","title":{"rendered":"Psychological treatment linked to physical brain changes that ease chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychological-treatment-linked-to-physical-brain-changes-that-ease-chronic-pain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back pain, migraines, arthritis, long-term concussion symptoms, complications following cancer treatment\u2014these are just a few of the conditions linked to chronic pain, which affects 1 in 5 adults and for which medication is not always the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new review study offers insight into how specific types of psychological treatment can help relieve this pain through <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/physical+changes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical changes<\/a> in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/research+article\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">research article<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0140673625004040\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in <i>The Lancet<\/i>. The study was led by Professor Lene Vase from the Department of Psychology at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back pain, migraines, arthritis, long-term concussion symptoms, complications following cancer treatment\u2014these are just a few of the conditions linked to chronic pain, which affects 1 in 5 adults and for which medication is not always the answer. Now, a new review study offers insight into how specific types of psychological treatment can help relieve this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}