PSYC 3170 Lecture 8: Week 8
7 Dec 2015
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A sensory and emotional experience of discomfort. The body"s way of telling you that there is an injury or something else wrong. People can have congenital abnormalities where they don"t feel pain; shorter life expectancy as their. If you"re distracted, pain is less noticeable (adrenaline in sports or shock in serious injuries) body is in constant strain. Organic vs. psychogenic: identifiable, biological cause, no identifiable cause. Chronic: comes on suddenly and is typically short lived, persists for a long time. Malignant vs. benign: dangerousness of pain, indicative of some kind of progressive disease pain, harmless. Continuous vs. episodic: always there, comes and goes. Algogenic substances: chemicals released at the site of the injury, includes. Nociceptors: afferent neurons that carry pain messages (towards the nervous system, free nerve endings that are specialized to receive the algogenic substances, and then transmit that pain message to the spinal cord.
