PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pain Management, Posterior Grey Column, Morphine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Terry Ahuja

Document Summary

Caused by soft tissue damage: 2. Chronic benign 6 month+, intractable to treatment. Recurrent acute pain series of intermittent episodes. Chronic progressive 6 month+, increasing severity (lower back pain) (migraine, tmj) (rheumatoid arthritis) Coping styles: catastrophizing heightens pains experience. More intense labour pain: resilience and positive emotions lowers pain. Commonly used assessment tolls: verbal reports. Pain catastrophizing scale (mpq: pain behaviour. Pain is a complex biopsychosocial event involving: psychological, behavioural, physiological. Nociception: process of carrying the pain/damage signal to the brain, nociceptive neurons have cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglia, can detect mechanical, thermal, and chemical stimuli, polymodal nociception. Nociception transmission: bidirectional axons synapse in dorsal horn of the spinal cord, signal continues to brain where its processed o. Transitional mode: suggested pain resulted from transmission of pain signals to the brain: degree of pain dictated by tissue damage.