CAS PS 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pain Management, Infographic, Enkephalin

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 332
• Professor: Long

Document Summary

Explain the main psychological approaches to pain management: cbt and act, relaxation, mindfulness, hypnosis, biofeedback. Identify the ideals of complementary and alternative medicine. Definition of pain: an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage (international association for the study of pain, 1979) Four stages: acute, pre-chronic, chronic and chronic recurrent. Measuring pain: no direct way of measuring pain. Physiological pain pathways: transduction, transmission, perception, modulation, substance p and enkephalins, decrease sensation of pain, descending modulatory pain pathways increase or decrease pain signals, these pathways change our perception of our pain. Specificity vs gate control theories of pain pain is actually different from the pain itself: specificity: too simplistic theory because it only talks about tissue damage and experience of pain, gate control theories include modulatory pain pathways. Psychosocial influences in pain perception (health disparities article: looks at how sociodemographic characteristics of patients (particularly race) influences treatment.