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The Body in Pain

The Body, 2020
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture ...
Elaine Scarry
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Pain and pain syndromes

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018
The two main categories of pain, nociceptive and neuropathic, are caused by tissue damage and nerve damage respectively. Psychogenic pain is also described in the literature but it is becoming a pejorative term as the concept of central control of pain is now gaining momentum.
Henok Getachew   +3 more
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Prevalence of chronic pain among adults in the United States.

Pain, 2021
Chronic pain is associated with reduced quality of life, increased medical expenditures, and significant economic costs. Chronic pain is among the most common chronic conditions in the United States, although estimates vary widely regarding its precise ...
R. J. Yong, P. Mullins, N. Bhattacharyya
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A painful addiction [PDF]

open access: possibleNature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013
Acute inflammatory pain can result in long-lasting central sensitization of spinal nociceptive pathways that is masked by upregulation of endogenous opioid signalling via the μ-opioid receptor.
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Neuropathic pain: From mechanisms to treatment.

Physiological Reviews, 2020
Neuropathic pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system is a common chronic pain condition with major impact on quality of life.
N. Finnerup, R. Kuner, T. Jensen
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Reappraising pain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015
A functional MRI study demonstrates that the nucleus accumbens and ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediate the effects of self-regulation on pain rating.
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Good Pain, Bad Pain

Science, 1997
Being able to feel pain can help avoid dangerous situations and accelerate the healing process. But sometimes prolonged pain can turn into a chronic and debilitating disease. Two reports on pages [275][1] and [279][2] of this issue suggest approaches for counteracting this "bad" pain. In their Perspective, Iadarola and Caudle discuss the work of Mantyh
Michael J. Iadarola, Robert M. Caudle
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