[Mechanism of pain sensation].
Pain, as subjective content of consciousness, is an essential attention-calling sign that helps to survive. Pain relieve is obligatory for every physician, thus, its individual appearance can make the analgesia difficult to carry out. The improving neuroimaging techniques allow understanding the development of pain sensation. Through the 24 articles on the PubMed found with keywords 'pain' and 'neuroimaging', we review here the parts of the pain neuron matrix, their tasks and the assumed mechanism of the acute pain sensation. The mechanism of the individual pain sensation is illustrated by the view of the modular function of the medial part of the pain matrix. Experimental results of empathic pain suggest that pain sensation may occur without real damage of the tissues, as well. The pain network plays main role in chronic pain.
Gyulaházi
Judit
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Debreceni Egyetem, Altalános Orvostudományi Kar, Budapest. j8328@freemail.hu
D000339:Affect; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004525:Efferent Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D009482:Neurophysiology; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D017288:Pain Threshold; D013133:Spinothalamic Tracts / Q000503:physiopathology; D017833:Visceral Afferents / Q000503:physiopathology