Following the most recent definition of Pain (IASP 2020), pain can be considered 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage'.
Multiple aspects characterize pain, including: being a subjective experience, presenting a somato-visceral response pattern and a specific expression (e.g., face, body); possibility of cognitive modulation (e.g., from memory and/or attention); having a meta-cognitive attribution (e.g., appraisals or evaluations); being characterized by a specific cortical and subcortical neural substrate. These different aspects can be explored most effectively by a multidisciplinary approach involving behavioral, psychological, and neuroimaging methodologies.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect original and review studies addressing how psychological, social, cognitive and neural aspects interact to origin the pain experience. In particular, we will accept studies on the neural basis of pain perception and observation and on the cognitive modulation of pain experience (the impact of expectation, attention, lexical processing, contextual and social features). We encourage the submission of studies on either experimental or clinical pain, using different methodologies, such as behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, in human healthy volunteers and patients.
This Research Topic has the goal to expand the theoretical knowledge of the neural mechanisms of pain and its modulations and will have the potential to set the groundwork for future clinical applications.
We welcome contributions from several fields: psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, neurology, social sciences, cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology. All types of papers are suitable to be submitted to this collection, including, but not limited to, original articles, reviews, clinical studies and technology reports.
Following the most recent definition of Pain (IASP 2020), pain can be considered 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage'.
Multiple aspects characterize pain, including: being a subjective experience, presenting a somato-visceral response pattern and a specific expression (e.g., face, body); possibility of cognitive modulation (e.g., from memory and/or attention); having a meta-cognitive attribution (e.g., appraisals or evaluations); being characterized by a specific cortical and subcortical neural substrate. These different aspects can be explored most effectively by a multidisciplinary approach involving behavioral, psychological, and neuroimaging methodologies.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect original and review studies addressing how psychological, social, cognitive and neural aspects interact to origin the pain experience. In particular, we will accept studies on the neural basis of pain perception and observation and on the cognitive modulation of pain experience (the impact of expectation, attention, lexical processing, contextual and social features). We encourage the submission of studies on either experimental or clinical pain, using different methodologies, such as behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, in human healthy volunteers and patients.
This Research Topic has the goal to expand the theoretical knowledge of the neural mechanisms of pain and its modulations and will have the potential to set the groundwork for future clinical applications.
We welcome contributions from several fields: psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, neurology, social sciences, cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology. All types of papers are suitable to be submitted to this collection, including, but not limited to, original articles, reviews, clinical studies and technology reports.