PAIN POD EPISODE 0

One of the most common definitions of pain describes pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” When we are exposed to something that causes pain, if able, we quickly or reflexively withdraw. The sensory feeling of pain is called nociception.

What Does It Mean to Call Chronic Pain a Brain Disease? by Mark D. Sullivan

https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(12)00560-3/pdf

Multiple investigators have recently asked whether neuroimaging has shown that chronic pain is a brain disease. We review the clinical implications of seeing chronic pain as a brain disease. Abnormalities noted on imaging of peripheral structures have previously misled the clinical care of patients with chronic pain. We also cannot assume that the changes associated with chronic pain on neuroimaging are causal. When considering the significance of neuroimaging results, it is important to remember that ‘‘disease’’ is a concept that arises out of clinical medicine, not laboratory science.

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