What Are Neuro Tags? Understanding Learned Pain Responses

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]you can end up with quite an imprecise neuro tag. And the way I will often explain this to athletes is I want you to think of it like a phobia. So, let's say when I was young, I was bitten by a really big black dog.

[00:00:18]Then, what can happen the next time I see that dog is I can just have this real physiological response, this fear response. Now, the dog hasn't bitten me, but my brain remembers and my brain is leaning into I need to protect you cuz last time I was in this sensory environment, this didn't go well for me and I got hurt. Then, as the years go by, Jack, what might happen is I can then see a smaller brown dog and I can have the same response. So, that's not to downplay the psychology of a true phobia, it's to illustrate imprecision is that over time our neuro tag can become less precise