[HTML][HTML] The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications

D De Ridder, D Adhia, S Vanneste - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.

ML Dixon, R Thiruchselvam, R Todd… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

First-in-human prediction of chronic pain state using intracranial neural biomarkers

P Shirvalkar, J Prosky, G Chin, P Ahmadipour… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic pain syndromes are often refractory to treatment and cause substantial suffering
and disability. Pain severity is often measured through subjective report, while objective …

Neural circuit basis of placebo pain relief

C Chen, JK Niehaus, F Dinc, KL Huang, AL Barnette… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Placebo effects are notable demonstrations of mind–body interactions,. During pain
perception, in the absence of any treatment, an expectation of pain relief can reduce the …

The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning and health

TD Wager, LY Atlas - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Placebo effects are beneficial effects that are attributable to the brain–mind responses to the
context in which a treatment is delivered rather than to the specific actions of the drug. They …

Descending pain modulation and chronification of pain

MH Ossipov, K Morimura, F Porreca - Current opinion in …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Preclinical studies coupled with clinical pharmacologic and neuroimaging investigations
have advanced our understanding of brain circuits that modulate pain. Descending pain …

Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief employs different neural mechanisms than placebo and sham mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia

F Zeidan, NM Emerson, SR Farris, JN Ray… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Mindfulness meditation reduces pain in experimental and clinical settings. However, it
remains unknown whether mindfulness meditation engages pain-relieving mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system

D Mobbs, CC Hagan, T Dalgleish, B Silston… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We propose a Survival Optimization System (SOS) to account for the strategies that humans
and other animals use to defend against recurring and novel threats. The SOS attempts to …

Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

A Etkin, T Egner, R Kalisch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Negative emotional stimuli activate a broad network of brain regions, including the medial
prefrontal (mPFC) and anterior cingulate (ACC) cortices. An early influential view …

Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: a mechanistic account

F Zeidan, DR Vago - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves interacting sensory, cognitive, and
affective factors, rendering the treatment of chronic pain challenging and financially …