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The sensory and affective components of pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Fabrizio Benedetti
Fabrizio Benedetti
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience and CIND Center for the Neurophysiology of Pain, University of Torino Medical School, 10125 Torino, Italybenedett@medfarm.unito.it
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Abstract

Both the sensory and the motivational-affective component of pain must be taken into account in studies on sex differences as well as on neuropathic, postoperative, sympathetic, and visceral pain. In all these cases, therapeutic strategies should be aimed at controlling the peripheral, central, and psychological mechanisms underlying the global pain experience. Similarly, it should be recalled that some neuropeptides act on both sensory and affective pain mechanisms. [berkley; mcmahon; dickenson; coderre & katz; wiesenfeld-hallin et al.; blumberg et al.]

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 439 - 440
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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