PSY 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychogenic Pain, Pain Management, Tachycardia
13 Feb 2018
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Psychology of health lecture 4: pain and pain management. Stops digestive tract stops to focus on/supply energy to other areas of the body. Increased platelet aggregation and adhesiveness faster blood clotting. Lungs are opening to let maximum amount of air in. Dilation of blood vessels to put energy towards your muscles. Neurologist are people who specialize in nervous system/nerves and they treat individuals with pain and pain management. Neurologists have to practice under the biopsychosocial view. Pain- an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential damage, or described in terms of such damaged. Sometimes pain is thought to be a form of stress (pain is really a type of stressor) Pain can also be experienced across a variety of domains (not only medical/biological) Pai(cid:374) is a(cid:272)tually prote(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though it"s u(cid:374)pleasa(cid:374)t: people who cannot experience pain are setting themselves up for a lot of future damage. Different types of pain: malignant vs benign.
