title: [Pain disorders in traumatized individuals - neurophysiology and clinical presentation].
abstract: This overview portrays the salient physiological mechanisms being involved in the clinical manifestation of chronic pain in traumatized patients. A «hypermnesia-hyperarousal-model» is purported to support the neurophysiologic plausibility of the trauma-pain-relationship. We discuss seven characteristic clinical pain entities which alone or in combination can be found in patients with a previous psychological trauma.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kompetenzbereich für Psychosomatische Medizin, Inselspital Bern. niklaus.egloff@insel.ch
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Egloff
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirschi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: von Känel
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D017288:Pain Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology