Pain - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Low-dose oral midazolam reduces fear and distress during needle procedures in children with cancer.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with cancer often mention needle procedures as the most frightening, distressing, and sometimes painful aspect of the disease and treatment. The aim was to investigate whether children experience less fear, distress, and/or pain ... Read more...

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 assessment in dementia]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Patients with dementia are often unable to describe their pain because of memory deficiency and speech problems. This may lead to under-diagnosing and suboptimal pain treatment. The article summarises a thesis on development and testing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Low-dose oral midazolam reduces fear and distress during needle procedures in children with cancer. 13 Dec 2009
• Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia. 14 Oct 2009
• [Pain assessment in dementia] 6 Oct 2009
• Synchronous with your feelings: sensorimotor {gamma} band and empathy for pain. 5 Oct 2009
• Effects of preoperative ibuprofen on pain after separator placement. 29 Sep 2009
• Positron emission tomography measures of endogenous opioid neurotransmission and impulsiveness traits in humans. 29 Sep 2009
• Aging with cerebral palsy and other disabilities: personal reflections and recommendations. 29 Sep 2009
• Changes in rapid eye movement sleep associated with placebo-induced expectations and analgesia. 21 Sep 2009
• Psychophysical and functional imaging evidence supporting the presence of central sensitization in a cohort of osteoarthritis patients. 13 Sep 2009
• Impaired health-related quality of life in children with recurrent pain. 5 Sep 2009
• Every physician should have a migraine. 2 Sep 2009
• Both happy and sad melodies modulate tonic human heat pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Experiencing painful osteoarthritis: what have we learned from listening? 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial factors and the pain experience of osteoarthritis patients: new findings and new directions. 30 Aug 2009
• Statistical approaches to evaluating the effect of risk factors on the pain of knee osteoarthritis in longitudinal studies. 30 Aug 2009
• Dimensional and componential structure of a hierarchical organization of pain-related anxiety constructs. 30 Aug 2009
• Chronic opioid therapy for nonmalignant pain: the patient's perspective. Part I--life before and after opioid therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption. 30 Aug 2009
• "An evil heritage": interview study of pain and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Pain'

Definition: An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.

Descriptor UI: D010146

Alternative terms: Pain; Pain, Burning; Burning Pain; Burning Pains; Pains, Burning; Suffering, Physical; Physical Suffering; Physical Sufferings; Sufferings, Physical; Pain, Migratory; Migratory Pain; Migratory Pains; Pains, Migratory; Pain, Radiating; Pains, Radiating; Radiating Pain; Radiating Pains; Pain, Splitting; Pains, Splitting; Splitting Pain; Splitting Pains; Ache; Aches; Pain, Crushing; Crushing Pain; Crushing Pains; Pains, Crushing;

Related Mesh Headings: Analgesia; Pain Insensitivity, Congenital; Analgesics; Hyperalgesia; Palliative Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617; C23.888.592.612; C23.888.646; F02.830.816.444; G11.561.600.810.444;

Technical Notes: general; prefer specific precoordinated locational pain terms, like ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHEST PAIN, etc.; / diag: consider also PAIN MEASUREMENT but PAIN / diag is probably PAIN / etiol; / ther: consider also PALLIATIVE CARE ( = pain relief without cure); / physiopathol: PAIN THRESHOLD is also available; chronic pain = PAIN (IM) + CHRONIC DISEASE (NIM): do not equate with PAIN, INTRACTABLE; congenital absence of pain = PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL