What Causes Pain To Become Chronic?
New study November 2020 that looked at 375 women coming to an inner city emergency department for acute pain. They followed these people for 3 months. 162 people still had pain at the end of 3 months…
Changes in the Brain Predict Chronic Low Back Pain a Year Later
This is one of those research articles I refer to often. It's titled: 'Predicting transition to chronic pain'. What is so interesting about this research is they did brain scans at the time of an acute…
Abnormal Amygdala Connections With Chronic Pain
The Amygdala is known as the emotional center of the brain. It has been implicated in anxiety and depression and now studies are clearly showing it is implicated with chronic pain. This study showed exactly…
What Happens in the Brain with Pain Catastrophizing?
Pain Catastrophizing is a 'tendency to magnify and ruminate about pain and having a helpless attitude toward actual or anticipated pain.' Studies show that people who catastrophize about their pain have…
Mindfulness Changes Brain Centers Linked With Chronic Pain
Article titled: "The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Alters the Brain and Facilitates Emotion Regulation" Some of the same areas of the brain that become weak (prefrontal cortex, etc) or overactive…
The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain
When looking at the brain's impact on chronic pain, we have to look to the prefrontal cortex. 2020 review of the research says: 'Its predominant role in aversive learning and memory puts the medial prefrontal…
Intolerance of Uncertainty Leads To More Pain
July 2020 publication in the Journal 'Pain' looking at what's called Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), which the study authors state is 'a dispositional fear of the unknown' and is related to anxiety…
Fibromyalgia and Emotion Regulation Difficulties
2020 study out of Europe looking at fibromyalgia and how these people have a harder time dealing with their emotions. As we know how we deal with emotions affects pain levels.
Emotions are the biggest…
Emotional Awareness Reduces IBS Pain
Let's continue with the science around emotions and now IBS.
Study Titled: "Higher Emotional Awareness Is Associated With Reduced Pain in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients: Preliminary Results"
Conclusions
This…
What Is the Relationship between Pain and Emotion?
Great to see these guys out of Stanford put out an article asking the scientific and medical community to bridge the gap between pain and emotion, as we have severed the mind from the body with pain for…
