Pain and the brain: Closing the gap between modern pain science and clinical practice

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There are probably kernels of truth here but it is a slippery road when you start hypothesizing there is no physical underpinnings and decide not to bother trying to identify them first.


https://cosmosmagazine.com/australi...Uzlf27pzdjlBdjJwwNl18WO5xAd_F7o_i3IEDnj1nV86c

 

[roller]

that "perceived danger" causes or increases pain, may also work in the other direction: that perceived care soothes pain.
havent we already heard about this?

but to conclude that all pain originates in the head, is imo psycho.

hopefully, i misunderstood the article somewhat.

 

[Wishful]

A few experiments about psychologically induced pain definitely does not prove that all pain is psychologically induced. If you are surprised by a wasp sting, are you perceiving a threat (when you don't even know that a wasp is around) or are the nerve impulses stimulated by the wasp's venom being interpreted as pain to warn you of a threat?