Analgesia - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia.

14 Oct 2009 Placebo analgesia is a prime example of the impact that psychological factors have on pain perception. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human spinal cord to test the hypothesis that placebo analgesia results in a reduction of ... Read more...

Pain experience in hospitalized adults with sickle cell disease.

29 Apr 2009 Adult patients with sickle cell disease often report high pain intensity ratings during hospitalization. However, no evidence of upward titration in analgesics was found particularly during prolonged episodes. Development of algorithms to facilitate ... Read more...

Stress-induced analgesia.

20 Apr 2009 For over 30 years, scientists have been investigating the phenomenon of pain suppression upon exposure to unconditioned or conditioned stressful stimuli, commonly known as stress-induced analgesia. These studies have revealed that individual ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Analgesia - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia. 14 Oct 2009
• Pain experience in hospitalized adults with sickle cell disease. 29 Apr 2009
• Stress-induced analgesia. 20 Apr 2009
• Placebo analgesia: widening the scope of measured influences. 29 Mar 2009
• Placebo analgesia induced by social observational learning. 8 Mar 2009
• Pain in older people with cancer: attitudes and self-management strategies. 27 Feb 2009
• Pain and substance-related pain-reduction behaviors among opioid dependent individuals seeking methadone maintenance treatment. 27 Feb 2009
• Neurobiological mechanisms of placebo responses. 27 Feb 2009
• Sustained efficacy of virtual reality distraction. 21 Feb 2009
• Distraction speeds the decay of shock-induced hypoalgesia: evidence for the contribution of memory systems in affective pain modulation. 11 Dec 2008
• "You just have to make the pain go away"--children's experiences of pain management. 29 Nov 2008
• Dose response of isometric contractions on pain perception in healthy adults. 30 Oct 2008
• Preventing and modulating learned wound pain. 30 Oct 2008
• Applications of virtual reality for pain management in burn-injured patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Reduction of opioid withdrawal and potentiation of acute opioid analgesia by systemic AV411 (ibudilast). 2 Oct 2008
• Something about Mary. 24 Sep 2008
• The dynamic mechanisms of placebo induced analgesia: Evidence of sustained and transient regional involvement. 17 Sep 2008
• An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system. 3 Sep 2008
• Differences in ethanol drinking between mice selected for high and low swim stress-induced analgesia. 30 Aug 2008
• The roles of physiological and subjective stress in the effectiveness of a placebo on experimentally induced pain. 23 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Analgesia'

Definition: Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.

Descriptor UI: D000698

Alternative terms: Analgesia; Analgesias;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E03.091;

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition