Dr. Negin Hesam-Shariati on the connection between psychological and social wellbeing and pain after spinal cord injury

Dr. Negin Hesam-Shariati, is a research fellow at the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney and Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia. Her research found that the way people relate to their pain shifts over time, with acceptance playing a stronger role and catastrophic thinking playing a weaker role the longer someone has lived with their injury.

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