All Entries Tagged With: "pain"
Allan Basbaum on Pain and the Brain
Allan Basbaum at UCSF takes a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction.
VS Ramachndran talks about pain
Great lecture from the Beyond Belief conference.
Neil Pearson’s webcasts on pain (Canadian Pain Coalition)
Cutting edge science on our understanding of pain and emerging ideas about therapy
Part I: Overcome Pain, Live Well Again (45 minutes) Part II: Pain is like Vision (42 minutes)Part III: Neuroplasticity (60 minutes)
Placebo: the Meaning Response
Understanding which components of the therapeutic encounter are valuable in producing positive responses to a health care intervention is an important responsibility of every health profession. The ability to produce specific treatment effects that intervene directly with the presenting dysfunction or pathology is the conventional aim of health care practice, and maximising these effects is [...]
Placebo analgesia is augmented following prior observation of successful treatment
It has long been known that psychosocial factors play a crucial role in placebo responses. According to Colloca and Benedetti, no attempt has been made to understand if social observation shapes the placebo analgesic effect. To address this question, they compared placebo analgesia induced through social observation (Group 1) with first-hand experience via a typical [...]
