Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion
Psychological and Clinical Implications

Coordinators: Flaten Magne Arve, al'Absi Mustafa

Language: English

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Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion: Psychological and Clinical Implications presents updated research on stress, pain, and emotion, all key research areas within both basic and clinical neuroscience. Improved research understanding of their interaction is ultimately necessary if clinicians and those working in the field of psychosomatic medicine are to alleviate patient suffering.

This volume offers broad coverage of that interaction, with chapters written by major researchers in the field. After reviewing the neuroscience of pain and stress, the contents go on to address the interaction between stress and chronic/acute pain, the role of different emotions in pain, neurobiological mechanisms mediating these various interactions, individual differences in both stress and pain, the role of patient expectations during treatment (placebo and nocebo responses), and how those relate to stress modulation.

While there are books on the market which discuss pain, stress, and emotion separately, this volume is the first to tackle their nexus, thus appealing to both researchers and clinicians.

Part 1: Introduction and Background on Pain and Stress 1. Neuroscience of Pain and Emotion 2. Neuroscience of Stress 3. Emotions and Pain 4. Sex Differences in Pain and Stress

Part 2: Psychological Processes Related to Pain and Stress 5. Pain and the Placebo Effect 6. Nocebo and Pain 7. The Neuroscience of Pain and Fear 8. Cognitive Factors in Pain

Part 3: Clinical Implications 9. Chronic Pain and Depression: Vulnerability and Resilience 10. Addiction, Pain, and Stress Response 11. Pain and Hypertension 12. Chronic Pain and Fatigue 13. Conclusion and Future Directions

Professor of Biological Psychology and Depatment Chair of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dr. Flaten’s reserach focuses on biological psychology, psychology of learning, behavioral medicine, and pain. He serves as a board member for European Psychologist and European Journal of Behavior Analysis and served as Chair for the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Imaging in Neuroscience 2007-2009. Dr. Flaten chaired the 2011 symposium on placebo and pain at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Professor of Behavioral Medicine and holder of the Max & Mary La Due Pickworth Chair at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. al’Absi is the founding director of the Duluth Medical Research Institute. He is also the Course Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Medical School, has a joint appointment as a Professor and a graduate faculty at the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, Neuroscience, Family Medicine, and the Integrated Biological Sciences Program. Professor al’Absi directs a research program focusing on the neurobiology of stress.
  • Represents the only comprehensive reference detailing the link between pain, stress and emotion, covering the neuroscientific underpinnings, related psychological processes, and clinical implications
  • Compiles, in one place, research which promises to improve the methodology of clinical trials and the use of knowledge of pain-stress-emotion effects in order to reduce patients’ suffering
  • Provides comprehensive chapters authored by global leaders in the field, the broadest, most expert coverage available