Towards a taxonomy of pain modulations.

Ploner M., Bingel U., Wiech K.

The subjective experience of pain is affected by various modulating factors, such as the sufferer's level of anxiety or distraction. A recent study sheds light on the neural underpinnings of pain modulation and illustrates how we can advance towards an integrated psychological, neurobiological and clinical taxonomy of pain modulations.

DOI

10.1016/j.tics.2015.02.007

Type

Journal article

Journal

Trends Cogn Sci

Publication Date

04/2015

Volume

19

Pages

180 - 182

Original publication