Questions tagged [pain]
Pain: emotional, mental, physical. The effect of pain upon mood, behaviour and brain chemistry. The neurological process of pain. Factors affecting a person's ability to cope with pain. Chronic pain, acute pain. How people react to another's pain. Pain management.
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Pain without consciousness
I know about blindsight, so I'm wondering if there are cases of people in pain who demonstrate all the behaviours of pain (e.g. putting hand in cold water after getting burnt, whining about the pain), ...
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How does caffeine work as an analgesic adjuvant?
Caffeine is used an adjuvant in over-the-couner pain medication, e.g. added to paracetamol and/or aspirin.
A brief look at the Wikipedia page on caffeine doesn't indicate any analgesic effect of ...
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Why does emotional pain sometimes feels like physical pain? [duplicate]
So here's a question from a newbie. I read somewhere that emotional pain can last as long as 20 minutes. Anything painful you feel beyond that is just a result of overthinking.
Well whatever it is, ...
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Is there a region of the brain that mediates pain in a manner reminiscent of the mesolimbic pathway?
The mesolimbic dopamine pathway is a common neural pathway upon which rewards converge AKA the pleasure pathway.
So I am trying to find a comparable pathway in the brain for pain -- is there such a ...
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Is dissociation/detachment associated with gamma wave?
In this answer, it is said that pain signals can be numbed by dissociating through detachment (a psychological effect). On the other hand, in the article "The Brain of Buddha" by Christof Koch, it ...
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Why does cathodal tDCS (negative) produce sensation, while anodal tDCS (positive) does not?
If neurons fire due to an intracellular influx of positive ions, why are the negative electrodes in tDCS felt more strongly than the others? For example, see "Reducing Procedural Pain and Discomfort ...
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Can a person be subjected to long term physical pain as a result of psychological abuse
Can psychological abuse in the past lead to long term physical pain in the present?
Pain will usually become less severe as the injury heals, but what about pain not resulting from physical injury? ...
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Do hallucinogenics affect chronic pain?
As noted in a previous question, hallucinogenics, such as psilocybin, have been used to treat depression with some success. Chronic pain is affected somewhat by a top-down process from the brain, as ...
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Does the wrist have more neurons than the finger? [closed]
Once upon a time, I felt an ant crawling on my hand. I couldn't feel it initially, until it reached my wrist. Then I tried to let the ant crawl on my skin; what I found was that I couldn't feel the ...
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Are we able to simulate pain through the brain?
I have like 0 experience or knowledge about brain signals and all that stuff but I'm curious about how much we know about the brain in terms of like tricking your brain that with simulation of pain. ...
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What might explain a rush of euphoria before enduring physical pain?
What neurological or physiological response would work fast enough to anesthetize or provide a euphoric sensation during or in advance of a body trauma event such as being involved in a car or bike ...
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How does the brain project pain on to a particular part of the body?
How does our brain translate periheral sensations due to injuries into pain perceptions? As an in silico analogy - if a stimulus is applied to a sensor it can be transmitted to a microprocessor. The ...
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Is there any evidence that better sleep reduces the symptoms of chronic severe Fibromyalgia?
Is there any evidence that better sleep reduces the symptoms of chronic severe Fibromyalgia?
Severe fibromyalgia has been linked to the possible depletion of serotonin through prolonged and ...
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Is there any good evidence that sadness causes chest pain (“heart ache”)?
It's commonly believed that sadness from romantic rejection causes chest pain ("heart ache"). This isn't that outlandish of a hypothesis, given that affect is just the mental representation of ...
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How do certain individuals, like Quang Duc, develop the ability to remain calm when enduring significant nociceptive pain?
A famous picture depicts Quang Duc self-immolating himself in protest of the Vietnam War. David Halberstram: "As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound [...]. His face seemed to ...
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Why does learning new mental skills lead to headaches?
Why is deliberate practice uncomfortable? For example, during learning college math and playing the piano. Why do we get headaches after long hours of practice?
According to this question, learning ...
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Are there any pain scales which measure how much of the body is in pain?
Are there any pain scales which talk about the extent of pain, i.e. how much of the body is in pain?
I'm in the process of trying to work out whether several lesions, hurt with the same intensity as ...
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Why do I enjoy low-mid level pain? [closed]
For example, say if I have really dry elbows. They become cracked and begin to flay, yet I continue to rub them against various kinds of surfaces for the different sensations of pain. It hurts alot, ...
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How would slowed message over the reflex arc work? [closed]
Take, for example, a person with average reflexes/a normal reflex arc. The person touches an extremely hot stove and immediately pulls away. Slowing this event down, upon touching the stove, it takes ...
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Does our brain react as if we were physically hurt when we are lied to?
I think I've read somewhere that our brain acts as if we were physically hurt (as if we feel pain) when we catch someone lying to us. I couldn't find anything about it on google, and my memory is not ...
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Could a painful stimulus be effectively used as a learning aid?
In rats, the application of a painful stimulus has shown an increase in overall arousal and the ability to learn certain behaviours (The study is neatly summed up in this video: Motivation and Reward ...
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Can someone not feel i.e. neglect pain sensation?
Ronda Rousey (UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion) once said on a talk show (Conan) that she can take a punch and not feel pain, she added that she knows what pain is and she can just simply neglect ...
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How can the effects of pain on cognitive functions be tested in an ethically accepted way?
I have devised a study that may provide an ethical way to invoke similar behaviours in participants, as those demonstrated by individuals in pain. Obviously it is extremely hard to correctly test ...
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Is there a condition where a person doesn't feel emotional or non-physical pain?
Congenital insensitivity to pain is a rare condition where a person cannot feel pain (physical). Is there any condition relates to emotional pain or any pain not related to physical that a person ...
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When we are sad, why do we feel pain in our stomachs?
I thought everything is in the brain.
Why do we feel pain in our stomachs when we are sad?
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Why do we scream in pain and fear?
Why do humans (other living things too, but not sure) scream and make high pitched sounds when in pain* or when in fear that something painful* will imminently be inflicted upon them?
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How does emotional pain cause as much suffering as physical pain?
Consider someone who has a serious injury. Example examples include losing a limb, being shot or falling from a great height.
It is easy for the human mind and science to comprehend and explain why ...
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What personality traits affect ability to cope with pain?
It has been shown that pain impairs cognitive function, in this question and the following studies on the effects of headaches on cognition. Moor et al write
It must therefore be emphasised that ...
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The effects of pain on cognitive function and incidence of depression
There have been studies about the link between depression and cognitive function..
There have been studies between pain and cognitive function. This has, also, been discussed in this question here.
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What are the neurological differences between those who have a high tolerance to pain and those who do not?
I am curious to learn what are the neurological differences between those that have a high tolerance to pain than to those that do not. Specifically, by high tolerance to pain, I am referring to ...
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Does pain reduce cognitive abilities?
Does subjecting a person to pain reduce his cognitive abilities?
If so, what is the process that reduces the ability? (By process, I mean the changes happening in the nervous system as a result of ...
