Meaning affects our pain experience
- 1. Los Angeles, June 2009
Meaning affects our
pain experience
Lorimer Moseley
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute & School of Medical
Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Team leader
The GAMFI project
University of Oxford, UK
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- 2. The context of a noxious Stimulus affects the
pain it evokes
Pain 133, 1-3 64-71
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- 7. Very cold (-20ºC) stimulus associated with a red or a blue light
10
Pain
5
0
Red Blue
light light
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Moseley & Arntz 2007 PAIN In press www.BodyInMind.com.au
- 9. Visual clues that imply more or less danger
change the pain evoked by identical stimuli
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