How does your brain respond to pain? - Karen D. Davis
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Ouch! Everyone experiences pain -- but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different ways? And what exactly is pain, anyway? Karen D. Davis walks you through your brain on pain, illuminating why the "pain experience" differs from person to person.
Lesson by Karen D. Davis, animation by Brett Underhill.
1:15 The guy doesnt care about getting stabbed, getting hit with a rock, or burning, but decides to react from getting an ache.
Brick...
Whenever you're struggling to complete a jigsaw puzzle, set yourself on fire.
That makes total sense!
thank you fart nuggets! :D
*Edited for current day, because my old comment was so weird and boring.*
My whole body is on fire.. I got a big sun burn *boo-boo* XD
And i can't feel my head when it gets hit by a ball
LOL
If you dont feel pain, that means your brain doesn't care about your life
+crozacx or you have no nerves XD is the other solution
...like that, in mw at least psychological pain a bit a day at seeing how some people have to lives even if you are having one of those super great days
Lol
so if I like pain my brain hates me and wants me to die
No it means some of your nerves are disconnected.
I just remembered that Tibet monk that put himself on fire and kept meditating until completely colapsed. He made no sound and was completely aware of what's going on. Now that was some brain control.
I call it stupidity.
Really? Have you endured the conditions that forced his hand into martyrdom? Think before you type.
But you didn't say, what was the reason to do it. And the commenters are now left to their fantasies.
Coil u i just saw it in a recent video on why... There was a purpose
"Thich Quang Duc was more than a symbol, more than the “Burning Monk.” He was a man who was willing to give up his life for a cause - and a man who changed the world."
#All2Nli10
TED. basically they turn complicated problems into a way so that a 5 year old understands it.
Thanks, MultiHammodi! We appreciate you stopping by.
TED-Ed
your welcome anytime.
+OmNomNomNomNom aka ELI5
Well, I am a 5 year old, so thanks, TED.
Haha True
I laughed too hard at the werewolf side effect lol
Lol
same
:)
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can you explain it to me?
I saerched pain and a comment made one of my friends scream
The visuals on this lesson were particularly humorous. I laughed with the "side effects" that popped up at 4:15! Good work, as always!
Broke my arm: meh
Headache: MAKE IT STOP!!!
Yup
I've shattered a collar bone, lit my hand on fire, those were eh. but nothing, nothing compares To a surprise Lego under your foot
IKR just like: stubbed your toe: AHHHHHHH Headache: AHHHHHHHH Broken Arm: Meh
head injury requiring stitches: meh. neck injury requiring very strong doses- ow. broken hand- eh. period cramps: AAHHHHHHH MY STOMACHS ON FIRE AND SOMEONES PUTTING IT OUT WITH 7 KNIVES
omfg same, I broke my wrist in two places and went to the clinic the next day cause I didnt think it was broken cause it didnt hurt that much even though it ended up being pretty bad but then when I have headaches it's a different story.....
4:17 ah yes. I too turn into a werewolf when I take Tylenol.
Who doesnt??
Depends on the pain. Major cuts (sheet metal half to a full inch in the arm), broken bones (ankle and detached tendon i thought was a sprain as I don't bruise much), constant minor cuts unnoticed, or this past week a large chuck of skin scraped off my ankle that was noticed mid-healing. But a headache, migraine, or stiff/sore finger joints - it's like a red light blinking directly in front of my face. Cannot be ignored.
Yeah, I can deal with most stuff but headache/migraines are the worst.
@@Cakeandnanna9091
For as long as you believe its the worst , it shall be. Take a minute to understand where pain really stands.
Me when I scrape my knee: eh
Me when I step on a lego: -screams and cries in pain-
Me when I break a bone: eh
Me when my cat scratches me: omg I’m gunnnaa diieee 😱
During meditation it is good to observe pain, especially that there is nothing else to do. You can even make is disappear or dissolve if awareness is right 🤗
The flamingo part looks so painful
yeah albert is killing them in roblox but also, this is why you never mess with a bird
@@tr0nmo992 what
Though all these people going through the pain, like buring alive, getting slashed by a koala, getting high electric voltage in you, and a long-beaked bird freaking stabbing you through the head (but you wouldn't be focused on anything then), should all focus on stopping the pain instead of playing puzzle
.........HAVE... TO.... FINISH... PUZZZZZLLLEEE!
*ROARRRRR*
Teslamonger Where's your profile from?
Jesus Christ
Darker than Black.
Didn't know Jesus had an interest in anime.
Teslamonger You'd be surprised at the things jesus is interested in...
The_Pyromancer I
You can't train yourself to feel less pain, but you can build up your tolerance to it
Richard H I believe its the threshold of pain. Heat receptors might be activated and feel pain at 50 degrees C, but you can continually touch objects hotter and get used to them, that you still feel the 50 degree heat in the same way, but your threshold is higher and pain won't be triggered.
I know this on the basis that people brought up in areas where spicy food is normal cuisine still feel the burning sensation of the food, because the spices are literally activating your heat receptors above their threshold. Its not that they don't feel the heat of the spicy food or react any differently, its that they've trained their threshold to be higher through continual use.
Goabnb94 You may like this TED-Ed Lesson on pain relievers: ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-pain-relievers-work
Goabnb94 So does that mean those Tibetan monks that set themselves on fire but remain completely calm have practiced by walking on hot coals first or something like that? Your opinion does make sense but I'm also with Richard in thinking it might also be mind over matter since the monks are probably meditating while their bodies are on fire.
Ginger Astaire er E eer rey
I was diagnosed with intractable pain at a fairly young age the illustration at 4:00 was perfect. I always joke with my doc that I’m probably the youngest 80 year old she knows.
whats intractable pain
If you are suffering from pain, you are NOT ALONE!!! There is support for people who suffer.
But WHERE is this support?😦 I haven’t found any kind of real support and I certainly don’t get it from my family. My husband just doesn’t have empathy and he just can’t relate or just doesn’t care,..he’s hard to understand actually.🤷🏼♀️ I have looked for support in my area but there just isn’t anything. Even psychiatrists I have searched up,..I didn’t find any who have experience with people who live in constant pain and misery. I have no one to talk to that understands. So many people have not experienced some kind of severe pain, let alone being stuck with it until death so, there just isn’t anyone. 😩
@@KellyBell1 go online!!!
So, the brain gives you pain, then proceeds to help you deal with what it just gave you? Wtf?
+Borc55 The reaction to pull your hand out of the fire is controlled at your spinal column, not your brain. The pain serves to teach you to not repeat the action that caused the pain. It also stops you using the damaged part, giving it a chance to heal.
Maxx B I know that, why are you replying to me?
*****
I meant to reply to the OP.
pain from body sensation to tell you something is wrong and it's not all in the mind
why are we talking about pain who KILLED JIRAYIA WTF
I LOVE this type of videos. So simple, yet so educative
This explanation is so well done and needed. Thank you TED-Ed for continuing to educate us.
Nerves: General Brain we've detected severe pain coming from the torso, what should we do to combat it?
Brain: I don't know fucking make the human do a puzzle or some shit
Knight Kobayashi I just imagined you saying that as Bill Wurtz >,
XD
BLUR UR COMMENT BRUV
0:24 Ah yes, I always do puzzles while being attacked by a demonic koala.
🤣🤣
this is wrong the pain scale goes from 1 to "stepping on a lego".
There is no such thing as a lego. It is just lego. Legos is not a thing, a lego is not a thing. Lego is a brand name that encompasses a wide range of products, what you are most likely referring to is a lego brick.
Oh yes... i apologize i meant to say "stepping on a lego brick"
+Rowan Brown you're such a nerd
______ Your point?
Rowan Brown my point is don't reply people in internet by writing a paragraph on how they wrote something wrong when you obviously get the point regardless
You guys should do one about people who have pain but no injury like fibromyalgia. I would love to understand why I'm in constant pain.
Google it, maybe?
I would and have many many times but the way they explain it makes it easier to understand
Jessica SmokeyMcPot So why wouldn't you just Google it, but then later watch the video they might make on it later?
Jessica SmokeyMcPot There actually IS damage in Fibromyalgia, but not necessarily to the areas of the body that hurt or malfunction. The damage is in the Central Nervous System, most often caused by repeated or ongoing childhood trauma. When a child's brain keeps getting overrun with stress hormones while it is developing, there are alterations to the development.
Those stress hormones keep the fight or flight response stuck in the ON position, when it is designed to activate in emergencies, for short periods of time. Eventually the fight or flight system won't shut off, or it is damaged and keeps the person's body in a constant state of malfunction. Think of an overheated electrical system that still functions, but it has surges, and some areas get too little of a signal, or an intermittent signal.
Childhood trauma causes emotional pain, and so do the memories of it. Emotional pain and physical pain share the same neural pathways, and the brain cannot distinguish which kind of pain is being transmitted. The brain just knows that it's pain. These pathways get overused during trauma, and are part of the nervous system malfunctioning of Fibromyalgia.
We have a sensitized pain center, and we get too many pain signals when we shouldn't. On top of this, we feel the pain more intensely. This is due to the fact that we don't release the natural, opiate strength pain reliever that a healthy person's nervous system will activate as a response to pain. If a healthy person accidentally kicks the leg of a chair, his pain will soon have a rescuer. His brain calls in the body's natural, opiate strength pain reliever to come to the site of the injury. His pain begins to dull, so that he can go on to do other things without the injury hounding him.
But in a Fibro sufferer, this natural pain reliever doesn't come. So our pain keeps on and on, until our nerves are worn out and we can't think straight or move on with life. Think of having someone lightly scrape their fingernail across your forearm. At first it's no problem. But imagine if they keep scraping their fingernail across that very same spot, over and over and over. Eventually it irritates you. Then it's uncomfortable. Then painful. Finally it is throbbing so bad you can't stand it. This is the same kind of effect that happens to someone with Fibro not getting the relief of the natural, opiate strength pain reliever. The pain signal keeps coming, and it wears away on the same nerve, over and over, until it is sensitized and becomes unbearable.
There are sensory nerves in the blood vessels, that feel pain. With Fibro, extra nerve bundles form, or the bundles are larger than normal. When these nerves start going haywire, we get pain all over, because our blood vessels go everywhere. The malfunctioning nerves affect the walls of the blood vessels, and that means changes in blood flow. In a Fibro brain, medical science has found areas with too little blood flow, and areas with too much blood flow. When this happens in our muscles, we get pain and we get spasms. Migraine pain is from the spasming of a blood vessel in our brain.
When nerves in the digestive tract go haywire, we get changes in blood flow, we get pain, and we get diarrhea or constipation. Think about this, every area of your body contains nerves. And every area of a Fibro sufferer's body is affected by our disease. I hope this information gives you a better understanding of what we go through with Fibromyalgia.
YamCherie this is the best explanation of the basic science behind fibro that i’ve ever seen, and i didn’t even know about the blood flow issue until now. i’m gonna copy/paste it and send it to everyone I know when they ask what’s wrong with me
Pain (From Naruto): "Have you begun to understand pain?"
The more pain you are given, the more resilient you are to later pain. At some point, you don't feel anything anymore.
I love how that one figure next to the werewolf started frowning :D
XD
Lol I love the werewolf and how the guy next to him turns red. xD
YAY IM ON FIRE! I CAN FINALLY BEAT THIS PUZZLE!
Better hurry before you run out of good flesh, clothes, and hair!
So you want to die?
A P-U-Z-ZLE A PUZZLE YEAH!!!!
@@SandaaaGW2 Um, I think you missed the joke there
@@AnneTranAnneTran bruh that was 2 years ago
0:45 That is NOT the same painful stimulus. That is four different stimuli.
as much as i disnt really understood the message of this ted video, i loved the animator. i would like to see his works more often.
The fact that the degree of pain experienced from the same painful stimulus varies depending on a person's experience intrigued me. Listening to this lecture became an opportunity for me to become more interested in what happens in the brain when it receives a certain stimulus. Watching this video made me wonder how babies with no experience feel pain, and I wanted to learn more about it.
I noticed that the video mentioned that the endorphins released during pain are the same as the ones release during high level exercise. I am a doctor of physical therapy and I treat patients with acute and chronic pain, many of whom are afraid to move or exercise. One of the most studied treatments for pain is actually aerobic exercise due to this endorphin effect. I am always looking for educational videos about pain to send to my patients. This one came really close, but focused a lot more on medications than natural methods of reducing pain, like exercise, diet changes, mindfulness, and activity pacing. I would love to see some content that frames exercise as a treatment for pain.
If your in pain think about sex, try and get the specifics of that sexual vision, focus on the clothes of the person, how their skin feels, how good the pleasure feels. Humans have an instinctive drive for sex, that's why when we're hungry for it, we become like animals. Doing this, your body will either completely ignore pain, or significantly reduce it. It works both with pain, anxiety, nervousness, stress. Helps me all the time.
I am sure you'd love this Lesson, FEATHEREDNEW: ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-attraction-dawn-maslar
I'm laughing my ass off at you comment because I'm asexual 😂 why think of sex??? How about something like chocolate.👍
i like pain
this nigga thirsty
+EXP x2 because you will feel pain if you thin about chocolate
Ted always has an answer! Thanks ted!
Oh! great information.
Thank you 👍🏻
My back started hurting and after 5s I found this on my recommendation....true story!!!
0:30 She is like.. "This is fine :)"
This is the source of all power. The more pain I endure, the stronger you become.
thank you very much ted💙
Excellent job, well done.
I have high tolerance to physical pain but when something really hurts I usually laugh like a crazy lunatic my sisters think I'm crazy lol
Same!
+nataly Villanueva I also have a high tolerance of pain, one time I putted my feet into A hot bucket of water, I putted my feet in and could give less of a shit.
Unknown Person same whit me 😂
***** she was cool 👍
Ikr
Whatever that old man going thru at 3:30 I feel it
It was educational, had great insight, and that werewolf made me laugh.
Glad I follow this channel!
"Those who do not know pain will never understand True Peace"
Almighty push
Thanks for this video! It was really cool to learn this. Can you do a video about how you can get a headache? You know the ones that just happen but there is no simple reason they are there?
they already have 3 just search up : what causes a headache
These videos are so interesting can't stop watching
Do a TedED video on why we get headaches, would love to see that!
Summary!
We all react differently to pain depending on how we handle it - so using tasks to focus away from pain helps tolerate it. Pain is a feeling associated with damage to tissue (skin, if you like), we measure it in intensity. Nerve cells send messages and it is processed leading to our brain deciding what to do; you pay attention and endorphins are released stimulating the running away feeling to stop the pain or relieve it - how your brain processes this information decides your pain tolerance. For mild pain, medicine acts on where pain starts. Other painkillers reduce the activity or increase the number of endorphins. Some use distraction while others have taken cognitive behaviour therapy but for pain that lasts long after injury, scientists are looking at medicine that blocks messages travelling to the brain to stop pain. MRI is used to help effectiveness for the patient since we all have variability. Basically.
good job on the animations. their great for someone who has ADD
It is very annoying fearful thing to have pain. Thats why pain is one of the major concerns studied in medicine. Good video, you can also see the infleunce of spinal cord and the gate theory of pain that i think acupunture works with
This is probably the funniest Ted-Ed I've ever watched
Ever since I was a little boy, I was told "grow up and be a man" whenever I cried from the smallest pain.
So I trained myself to be tolerant of pain, through playing sports, as well as playing things like airsoft, and paintball.
Since I was competitive my brain snapped out of pain much quicker to focus on winning the game. We work our hardest when we're at play.
Ruben Uchiha Haha Do That To Your Friends...They'll Get Pissed Off XD
hahahaha 4:14 wereworlf :Ρ
"And how are the side effects?
Well, I howl all night, jumping from rooftop to rooftop looking for unsuspecting prey..."
GSaVv If you like werewolves, you may like this lesson on vampires too: ed.ted.com/lessons/vampires-folklore-fantasy-and-fact-michael-molina
Yea that was awesome! I like very match vampires, I even watched all the episodes of Vampire Diaries and Originals :P
+TED-Ed i haram tie yoj unf to uv t. Yo yb Ymir u urn to numb bitty hymn ruin urine=pee
Yea
Those visuals were the absolute best
Great video - thanks:)
on related note, i read an article years ago saying that spicy food lover such as myself are addicted to pain...
Hey ***** you may want to check out our lesson on the science of spiciness (and why some people, like yourself, cannot get enough!): ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-spiciness-rose-eveleth
Sam Strobel We'd love to do more lessons on this kind of thing! Do you have anyone in mind that may be able to help us write that lesson? We're an open nomination platform, so you can nominate anyone here: ed.ted.com/nominate_an_educator
thanks for the video on spiciness. its very entertaining XD
+Calvin Zero Doctors are now using capsaicin, from chili peppers, as a treatment for pain. It's used as a cream or patches.
Yes, I used capsasin patches to heal my sprains
Nice explanation, and a funny cartoonish animation :)
awesome information
I have my first sugary very soon and it's also major and came out of nowhere nobody in my fam or me expect what we were going to find out but this kinda is helping to make me not so scared ❤
This is an interesting subject and one which this philosopher has given some thought to. My experience suggests that those who fear pain most, have had the least exposure to it. This statement is based on the notion that psychology plays a bigger role than physiology. Observation of non-human animals and personal experience play a huge roll in this conclusion.
Cool video
I have a very high level of pain tolerance. This causes some problems, since I sometimes can't tell how badly I'm hurt based on pain and I end up hurting myself and not even noticing all the time.
muy Interesante el video, se fue a mi favoritos!
This video should be a try not to laugh video - I have never seen seen someone smile after somebody else breaking their arm. lol
I don't only love the facts and stuff, but I also really enjoy the animation
So do masochists produce more of the endorphins/ whatever the other thing was called than 'normal' people? Personally I like some kinds of pain and sometimes something that starts of bad becomes pleasant.
dadeskr Like waggling loose teeth?
I am a medical student and this is gold
good work
Is there a way to completely shut down someone's pain system forever? If so, where can I get this?
+Sufyaan Campbell there is a condition where someone's unable to feel pain, but they're born with it and it's very dangerous to be, given that you'll not learn during your childhood what kills you or that fire burns you
You could break your spinal cord so you cant feel pain.
Breaking your spinal cord will also turn you into a paralysed individual though. OP wants to walk.
+Guilherme Moresco ya never know
+Guilherme Moresco "OP"? what's this? 9Gag?
.the brain looks like an uncooked piece of salmon
Good job I've watched lots of your videos
As someone with chronic pain as well as anxiety, I would often present very calm when I was explaining that I was in pain - sometimes not so calm. Either way I was thought to be exaggerating. Then when my vitals were checked or the cause was discovered, people were usually shocked I wasn't shrieking. I learned how to be in pain and to cope. It's not a skill I hope people have to learn, but if you do, you are going to freak some people out.
what about that feeling when you slept on your arm and it feels like pins and needles.
Little Princess Babygirl. That is your nerves reactivating to the brain, making the pin and needles feeling.
That is caused by poor blood circulation, your okay
pain feels good
PongoThePenguin ikr?
The Diamond Lord yes I'm not weird, WE'RE WEIRD
SilentCricket why do you like something that your brain says "OMG LOOK NO YOUR GOING TO DIE!!," You: yay im dieing
love this omg thank u new subscriber
Amazing.
WARNING:
Side effects of treatment results in one turning into a werewolf.
+Lucky Icecube
better be a werewolf than brony for the rest of the live time
eris wahyudi Uh..."the live time"? I think you mean life.
Broke arm
me: meh who cares
brain:give him pain! >:D
-sends pain signals-
me:Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!
Ok
I live with chronic pain ( turned 23 a couple weeks ago) and this new pain dr doesn't wanna help me by giving me my pain meds. I see him today. I wouldn't be on these or go through all those painful procedures if I didn't have pain. He told me to deal with it. I broke my hip 2 days before my 14th bday and didn't heal right, and now I have chronic pain. I wish he would tell every pain patient of his to just "deal with it".
Karen Davis is my teacher at Wilson creek!
aww yiss.
pain is from naruto shippuden
You experience true pain while watching Naruto Shippuden.
I fangirled over this comment.
Grace Hardesty Excuse me. It's Naurto Shit-put-in.
really.....lol
True pain is watching Haku die
I know this is li'l boi Naruto but still
Me: Hey! Should I step on that lego to become smart or should I set myself on fire??
very nice and cool presentation :D :D
On the topic of pain, if its discovered how to pin point where someone is experiencing pain and a way to cause someone to experience short term/long term pain in specific targeted areas, would this then open the door to devices where you might be able to simply turn down someones pain, be able to create more affective pain relief methods, also make it so a persons partner could take an amount of pain off there partner and experience a portion of it themself, for example the man could take some of his wife/girlfriends pain while giving birth, also with the ability to cause pain in specific places in someones body it could be a test when trying out pain relief that affects certain places of your body. Another aplication of being able to cause pain somewhere on a person would be a quite effective tool for torture, interigation or a punishment for some criminals. But just imagine how amazing a device that you could hook yourself up to and be able to put a stop to any pain your feeling, the possible aplications are insane to think about, some off the top of my head is a soldier who is surrounded by enemies and if he gets shot or thrown about from nearby explosions and falling debris, he could just not need to worry about anything stopping him from shooting his enemy, another would be a propper bloody and brutal fight between two people not feeling any pain.
I'm watching this in pain hoping to educate my brain on how to solve this incredible pain that is giving me a deep migraine which slowly should turn me insane so I shall not claim my pain is worse than the rain
Reminds me of the action movie I watched as a kid, it's called black mask (starring jet li). The pain receptors were turned off to create super soldiers and I was totally amazed by it! Then came universal soldiers and equilibrium, showing that we would be less of a human being if we tamper with our system (emotion, feelings etc) and become a mindless machine running a program!
thanks
One of the best animations! I really enjoyed it 😊🤘
Wow good job
Time to test every type of pain
The pain encourages me to do things
I love his voice
This explains the time I dug my head into the seat in front of me and I didn't notice the pain until I ran out of things to think about.
When I have pain, I'll do ANYTHING (except for harming others/me) to stop it. I am super sensitive (most small patches of peeled skin are 6+).
I like that one guy at 4:17. 😂 to the right of the werewolf. "Oh noes!"
Same
우리의 두뇌가 어떻게 고통에 반응을 하는지 배웠습니다. 메시지를 전달하는 방법이 고속도로 같습니다. 이렇게 빨리 메시지를 전달하는 것이 정말 대단한 것같습니다. 좋은 영상 감사합니다.
Is there a way to increase your pain tolerance (not just ignore the pain but actually feel less of it somehow)?
By nerves system in a human body it sends directly to your brain.
2:25 I'm pretty sure the example of taking a hand off a hot stove is a withdrawal reflex. There's only three nerve cells involved, and the brain isn't even aware of the danger until after the hand is pulled away. There's less damage to the hand when it doesn't have to wait for the brain to respond. My professor was discussing this in my psych class.
Shh, no one cares or asked