Margee Kerr

Margee Kerr is a sociologist who received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and has been teaching and conducting research since 2004. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, and the New York Post and her first book, Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, was published in 2015.

How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it

Margee Kerr and Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, authors of Ouch!, explain what pain is and how we can trick the brain into creating its own pain relief.