Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain.

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Summary

The affective dimension of pain is made up of feelings of unpleasantness and emotions associated with future implications, termed secondary affect, and experimental and clinical studies show serial interactions between pain sensation intensity, pain unpleasantness, and secondary affect.

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2000-06-09
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Affect (linguistics), Neuroscience, Psychology, Somatosensory system, Mediation

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