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Dario Zagar

Dario Zagar

Associate Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in headache medicine, chronic pain, and functional neurological disorders.

Sep 3, 2026

5:58
Yeah.
5:59
Yeah, I think you're right.
6:00
And, you know, in a job that I wasn't happy with at the time and just really kind of, it was a very difficult period, you know? And then going to medical school was another time that kind of threw things off.
6:15
And then, you know, really working with that book, I quickly improved in terms of symptoms, in terms of back pain.
6:22
And then, you know, looking back, I saw not only that I'd been dealing with back pain, but I had had these kinds of issues my whole life, actually, of various sorts.
6:30
I had growing pains as a kid.
6:33
I had the abdominal pain of unclear explanation, various symptoms like that that really had been unexplained but really made complete sense to me when I looked back.

18 MINS LATER

25:03
And how would you explain that, Dr. Dario? Well, a
33:42
Like, what is actually happening?
33:43
Sure.
33:44
Yeah, so 3PD, I think, is a perfect neuroplastic condition.
33:48
I think, in a way, it's very clean in a lot of ways because it is neuroplastic, meaning that this is related to... misprocessing, sensory misprocessing by the brain of information that's involved in balance.
34:04
That's how we understand it at this point.
34:06
And the pattern is so typical.
34:07
People usually have some sort of episode that causes dizziness.

5 MINS LATER

39:37
So I'm wondering how you might explain that to patients, how anxiety plays a role or fear plays a role in these symptoms.

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