The Perceived Meanings of Cancer Pain Inventory was used to measure the cognitive dimension of pain, whereas pain intensity and relief were used to represent the sensory dimension of pain.

Pain and itch are both unpleasant sensations ... ranging from basic sensory processing to higher-order cognition. However, a comprehensive understanding of how a limited number of neurons within ...

Dr. Wager's mission is to investigate the brain pathways that underlie the generation and regulation of pain and emotion. One line of work concerns how cognitive and motivational factors influence the ...

We argue that pain is not needed to protect the body from damage unless the organism is able to make free choices in action selection. Then pain (including its affective and evaluative aspects) ...

Chronic pain affects over 45 million Americans, with 65% of depression patients reporting at least one pain symptom. It ...

Pain is our body’s way of telling us that something is wrong. When it’s acute, it tends to start suddenly, with an obvious ...

Background Low back pain (LBP) is prevalent among adolescent rowers. This study evaluated the efficacy of a cognitive functional approach to reduce LBP in this population. Methods Thirty-six ...