Psychogenic Pain

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Path to Empathy As Vital As Being Empathetic

Different paths to perspective of another’s experience are associated with varying effect on helpers’ health during helping behavior.

Psychosocial Factors That May Predict Opioid Analgesia

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Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC

Multiple psychosocial factors such as depression, anxiety, and pain catastrophizing are associated with opioid analgesic response.

Hyperalgesia Can Be Socially Transmitted Via Olfactory Cues

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Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC

This study sheds light on the role of social and environmental cues in pain pathogenesis and has implications for the treatment of chronic pain patients.

Patients with Medically Unexplained Pain More Often Socially Excluded

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Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC

Dr Buse said that in her practice, patients with chronic pain often report feeling isolated and misunderstood, and that others believe they are exaggerating their pain or somehow using it to their benefit.

Psychosocial Pain Interventions: Many Effective Options

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Florence Chaverneff, Ph.D.

Physicians treating patients affected by pain need to help patients gain more access to treatment quickly.

Over-The-Counter Pain Med May Impede Ability to Empathize

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Steve Duffy

Acetaminophen may impede the ability to recognize and empathize with others’ pain.

Some Alzheimer’s Patients Have Increased Sensitivity To Pain

Patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s tended to experience more pain, yet those with other forms of cognitive impairment had less.

Stress May Reduce Pain Tolerance

There was a significant decrease in pain inhibition capabilities after the men in the experiment took a stressful test.

Some Psychotherapeutic Techniques May Alleviate Stress, Pain

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Bryant Furlow

Debra Hughes, MS

Stress and anxiety are critical elements of the human pain response, and these can be quantified not only with functional imaging but simply by measuring sympathetic response.