PSY333H5 Lecture 8: Pain
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Psy333: health psychology: october 30, 2017: lecture 7: pain. Pain can be related to an illness, and can come and go. How does your brain respond to pain (video) Pain is subjective: people can be distracted from pain, or use tasks to distract from pain. Definitions: sternbeck: an abstract concept that refers to a personal, private sensation or hurt; a harmful stimulus that signifies current or impending tissue damage; and a pattern of impulses that operates to protect the organism from harm. Is unpleasant: sensory and emotional, potentially (but not necessarily) associated with tissue damage, subjective. Acute vs. chronic pain: acute: elicited by substantial injury to body tissue and activation of nociceptive transducers at the site of the tissue damage, chronic: persists beyond normal time of healing. Pain is really costly: 000 000 000 in direct health care needs (canada) Indirect cost is caused by taking a sick day, losing your job = increases cost and burden.
