Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Phantom Limb, Neuralgia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Ch10 pain prologue it is a serious and prevalent health problem. Costs add up to billion/year in canada. Symptom that"s most likely to send people to seek treatment. Also the thing people fear most about treatment. pain comes in many different forms(from flickering to torturing p302) can be immediate or continuous it is a puzzling phenomena. Die at the age of 29 from infections that occurred because she was insensitive to pain. (in movie, sarah, insensitive to pain) The experience of pain is essential for survival: pain with no apparent physical cause. 1. neuralgia(pain along length of a nerve) e. g. trigeminal neuralgia(pain in face) Provoked by innocuous stimuli(cottonball: causalgia( severe burning pain) 3. phantom limb pain(pain in amputated limb) continue to feel pain in lost part. lose arm, but report feeling pain in the hand. (movie: fred, lost a leg but pain in the feet: pain is influenced by psychological factors. Soldiers(war is over and i"m finally going home)