CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student聽Yoni Ashar聽(Clinical, mentored by聽Sona Dimidjian and Tor Wager [now at Dartmouth]) was in the news, being interviewed about some research of his for聽Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. The research has to do with studying the treatment of聽previously intractable聽chronic back pain (CBP) through聽the use of psychotherapy sessions with a local therapist who specializes in treating chronic back pain. The therapy聽uses a relatiely new treatment called聽pain reprocessing therapy (PRT), in which clients are taught to reinterpet the pain signals as not being harmful to them. Read the A&S Magazine article about the research and聽a case example of how PRT has been very effective for one particular person (as it has been with most of their participants).