Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent health problems in our modern world, with millions
of people debilitated by conditions such as back pain, headache and arthritis. To address …

There have been anecdotal accounts for centuries of people apparently experiencing little or
no pain in situations that most of us would find excruciating. Yet, western medicine has given …

Properties of the brain's emotional learning circuitry predict the transition to chronic pain.
The involvement of this circuitry in pain remains mostly unexplored. Future human and …

Acutely, pain is protective. It promotes escape from, and future avoidance of, noxious stimuli
through strong and often lifetime associative memories. However, with persistent acute pain …

Our understanding of chronic pain involves complex brain circuits that include sensory,
emotional, cognitive and interoceptive processing. The feed-forward interactions between …

Cognition and pain : Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care Cognition and pain :
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Cognition is defined as the brain's ability to acquire, process, store, and retrieve information.
Pain has been described as an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience, and for …

Based on theoretical considerations and recent observations, we argue that continued
suffering of chronic pain is critically dependent on the state of motivational and emotional …

Brain processing of pain in humans is based on multiple ascending pathways and brain
regions that are involved in several pain components, such as sensory, immediate affective …

In this review, we integrate recent human and animal studies from the viewpoint of chronic
pain. First, we briefly review the impact of chronic pain on society and address current pitfalls …