Name: Pain, The brain and a little bit of magic
Start: 2025-05-21T19:30:00
End: 2025-05-21T21:30:00
Location: Retro Bar

Can the brain feel pain?
Step into a unique experience of storytelling, music, poetry, and magic as we explore how the brain creates pain and how it sometimes gets it wrong. Discover surprising insights and leave with simple, powerful tips to build your brain’s resilience to pain.

Two half-pints of Pain, the Brain and a little bit of Magic.

Professor Anthony Jones (Professor of Neuro-Rheumatology at the University of Manchester)

This will be an interactive performance talk about how the brain puts together the experience of pain. It will use story-telling, audience participation, poetry, music and magic to tell the story of how the brain puts together the experience of pain. It will describe what can go wrong in patients with chronic pain and old and new ways that can help increase the brain’s resilience to pain.

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