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PSYC 429

Pain: Body and Mind

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Pain Physiology (periphery to spinal cord)
  • Pain Physiology (Brain)
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Readings

  • Listed material: Melzack and Wall (1996) “Pain and Injury: the Variable Link” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 4-14
  • Listed material: Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423.
  • Listed material: Cohen, M., Quintner, J., & van Rysewyk, S. (2018). Reconsidering the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain reports, 3(2): e634. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000634
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):439–447 (stop at “Ob- jections to the IASP definition and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Fields, Howard L. "Pain: an unpleasant topic." Pain 82 (1999): S61-S69.
  • Listed material: Suggested Readings Rebuttal to Williams & Craig: Wright, A., & Aydede, M. (2017). Critical comments on Williams and Craig's recent proposal for revising the definition of pain. Pain, 158(2), 362-363. And reply by Williams & Craig Pain, 158(2), 363-365
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):447–464 (starting at “Objections to the IASP definiation and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Duncan, G. (2017). The Meanings of ‘Pain’in Historical, Social, and Political Context. The Mon- ist, 100(4), 514-531.
  • Required: Raja, Srinivasa N.a,*; Carr, Daniel B.b; Cohen, Miltonc; Finnerup, Nanna B.d,e; Flor, Hertaf; Gibson, Stepheng; Keefe, Francis J.h; Mogil, Jeffrey S.i; Ringkamp, Matthiasj; Sluka, Kathleen A.k; Song, Xue-Junl; Stevens, Bonniem; Sullivan, Mark D.n; Tutelman, Perri R.o; Ushida, Takahirop; Vader, Kyleq The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain, PAIN: May 23, 2020 - Volume Articles in Press - Issue - doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939
  • Required: Machery, Edouard, and Justin Sytsma. "Robot pains and corporate feelings." The Philosophers' Mag- azine 52 (2011): 78-82.
  • Required: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Up to “Sense Datum Theo- ries)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Wall (2000) “The Philosophy of Pain” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 17-30
  • Suggested: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 12-58 (Starting at “Sense Datum Theories)
  • Suggested: Price, Donald D. "Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain." Sci- ence 288.5472 (2000): 1769-1772.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Evolution of Pain Theories” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 149-157
  • Required: Perl, Edward R. "Ideas about pain, a historical view." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8.1 (2007): 71-80.
  • Required: Grahek, N. (2007) “The biological function and importance of pain” in Feeling Pain and Being in Pain pp. 12-30
  • Required: Basbaum “Specificity Versus Patterning Theory: Continuing the Debate” Woolf “Transcending Specificity” Casey “Ghosts of Pattern and Specificity” Fields “untitled” Apkarian “A theoretical view of ghosts” In Pain Research Forum, available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20150317131645/http://www.painresearchforum.org/forums/discus- sion/7347-specificity-versus-patterning-theory-continuing-debate (or google “Pain Research Forum Specificity versus Patterning”)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, S121-S126.
  • Suggested: Melzack R, Wall PD. Pain mechanisms: a new theory. Science. 1965 Nov 19;150(3699):971-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 5320816
  • Suggested: Craig, A. D. (2003). A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(6), 303-307.
  • Required: Iannetti, G. D., Salomons, T. V., Moayedi, M., Mouraux, A., & Davis, K. D. (2013). Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 371-378.
  • Required: Derbyshire, S. W. (2016). Pain and the Dangers of Objectivity. In Meanings of Pain (pp. 23-36). Springer, Cham.
  • Required: Salomons TV, (2018) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson RJ (Eds). pp. 291-298The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Suggested: Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397.
  • Suggested: Feinstein, Justin S., et al. "Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilat- eral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala." Brain Structure and Function 221.3 (2016): 1499-1511.
  • Suggested: Salomons, T. V., Iannetti, G. D., Liang, M., & Wood, J. N. (2016). The “pain matrix” in pain-free indi- viduals. JAMA neurology, 73(6), 755-756.
  • Required: Derbyshire, S. W., & Bockmann, J. C. (2020). Reconsidering fetal pain. Journal of Medical Eth- ics, 46(1), 3-6.
  • Required: Salomons, T. V., & Iannetti, G. D. (2022). Fetal pain and its relevance to abortion policy. Nature Neu- roscience, 25(11), 1396-1398.
  • Required: Condic et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organi- zation
  • Required: MacAvoy et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organ- ization
  • Suggested: Braithwaite, V. A., & Boulcott, P. (2007). Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of
  • Suggested: Key, B. (2015). Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal conscious
  • Required: “Living With Pain”, Claire Suddath, Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. http://con- tent.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2055269_2055261-1,00.html
  • Required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
  • Required: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat
  • Required: Tait, R. C., Chibnall, J. T., & Kalauokalani, D. (2009). Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking symptom certainty. Pain Medicine, 10(1), 11-34.
  • Required: Turk, D. C., Wilson, H. D., & Cahana, A. (2011). Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The Lan- cet, 377(9784), 2226-2235.
  • Required: Wall (2000) “How Treatments Work” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 107-124
  • Suggested: Fillingim, R. B., Loeser, J. D., Baron, R., & Edwards, R. R. (2016). The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T10-T20.
  • Suggested: Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others. Can J Nurs Res. 2007 Jun;39(2):88-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 17679587.
  • Suggested: Guilford Press. Pp 3-16.
  • Required: Meske, D. S., Lawal, O. D., Elder, H., Langberg, V., Paillard, F., & Katz, N. (2018). Efficacy of opioids versus placebo in chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of enriched enrollment ran- domized withdrawal trials. Journal of pain research, 11, 923.
  • Required: Belzak, & Halverson (2018). Evidence synthesis-The opioid crisis in Canada: a national perspec- tive. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada: research, policy and prac- tice, 38(6), 224.
  • Required: Goldstone “The Pain Refugees” https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/the-pain-refugees/
  • Required: Suggested Reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • Suggested: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/limiting-opioids-alone-is-not-a-sustainable-pain-care- plan_b_10374856
  • Suggested: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/
  • Required: Engel, G. L. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. The American Journal of Medi- cine, 26(6), 899-918.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Psychology of Pain” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 15-33
  • Required: Large, R. G. (1996). Psychological aspects of pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 55(6), 340–345.
  • Required: Suggested Reading: Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., ... & Apkarian, A. V. (2012). Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature Neuro- science, 15(8), 1117-1119.
  • Suggested: Denk, F., McMahon, S. B., & Tracey, I. (2014). Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective. Na- ture neuroscience, 17(2), 192-200.
  • Required: Pain Research and Treat- ment, 2012
  • Required: Galvez-Sánchez, C. M., & Reyes del Paso, G. A. (2020). Diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia: critical review and future perspectives. Journal of clinical medicine, 9(4), 1219.
  • Required: Ria K. Nishikawara , Izabela Z. Schultz PhD, Lee D. Butterfield PhD & John W. Murray (2023) “You have to believe the patient”: What do people with fibromyalgia find helpful (and hindering) when accessing health care?, Canadian Journal of Pain, 7:2, DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2023.2176745
  • Required: Majidullah Shaikh & Eleni G. Hapidou (2018) Factors involved in patients’ perceptions of self-im- provement after chronic pain treatment, Canadian Journal of Pain, 2:1, 145-
Winter 2022

Topics

  • Pain Physiology (periphery to spinal cord)
  • Pain Physiology (Brain)

Readings

  • Listed material: Melzack and Wall (1996) “Pain and Injury: the Variable Link” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 4-14
  • Listed material: Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423.
  • Listed material: Cohen, M., Quintner, J., & van Rysewyk, S. (2018). Reconsidering the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain reports, 3(2): e634. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000634
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):439–447 (stop at “Ob- jections to the IASP definition and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Fields, Howard L. "Pain: an unpleasant topic." Pain 82 (1999): S61-S69.
  • Listed material: Suggested Readings Rebuttal to Williams & Craig: Wright, A., & Aydede, M. (2017). Critical comments on Williams and Craig's recent proposal for revising the definition of pain. Pain, 158(2), 362-363. And reply by Williams & Craig Pain, 158(2), 363-365
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):447–464 (starting at “Objections to the IASP definiation and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Duncan, G. (2017). The Meanings of ‘Pain’in Historical, Social, and Political Context. The Mon- ist, 100(4), 514-531.
  • Required: Raja, Srinivasa N.a,*; Carr, Daniel B.b; Cohen, Miltonc; Finnerup, Nanna B.d,e; Flor, Hertaf; Gibson, Stepheng; Keefe, Francis J.h; Mogil, Jeffrey S.i; Ringkamp, Matthiasj; Sluka, Kathleen A.k; Song, Xue-Junl; Stevens, Bonniem; Sullivan, Mark D.n; Tutelman, Perri R.o; Ushida, Takahirop; Vader, Kyleq The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain, PAIN: May 23, 2020 - Volume Articles in Press - Issue - doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939
  • Required: Machery, Edouard, and Justin Sytsma. "Robot pains and corporate feelings." The Philosophers' Mag- azine 52 (2011): 78-82.
  • Required: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Up to “Sense Datum Theo- ries)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Wall (2000) “The Philosophy of Pain” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 17-30
  • Suggested: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 12-58 (Starting at “Sense Datum Theories)
  • Suggested: Price, Donald D. "Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain." Sci- ence 288.5472 (2000): 1769-1772.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Evolution of Pain Theories” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 149-157
  • Required: Perl, Edward R. "Ideas about pain, a historical view." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8.1 (2007): 71-80.
  • Required: Grahek, N. (2007) “The biological function and importance of pain” in Feeling Pain and Being in Pain pp. 12-30
  • Required: Basbaum “Specificity Versus Patterning Theory: Continuing the Debate” Woolf “Transcending Specificity” Casey “Ghosts of Pattern and Specificity” Fields “untitled” Apkarian “A theoretical view of ghosts” In Pain Research Forum, available online at http://www.painresearchforum.org/forums/discus- sion/7347-specificity-versus-patterning-theory-continuing-debate (or google “Pain Research Forum Specificity versus Patterning”)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, S121-S126.
  • Suggested: Melzack R, Wall PD. Pain mechanisms: a new theory. Science. 1965 Nov 19;150(3699):971-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 5320816
  • Suggested: Craig, A. D. (2003). A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(6), 303-307.
  • Required: Iannetti, G. D., Salomons, T. V., Moayedi, M., Mouraux, A., & Davis, K. D. (2013). Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 371-378.
  • Required: Tracey, I. (2021). Neuroimaging enters the pain biomarker arena. Science Translational Medi- cine, 13(619), eabj7358.
  • Required: Salomons TV, (2018) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson RJ (Eds). pp. 291-298The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Suggested: Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397.
  • Suggested: Feinstein, Justin S., et al. "Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilat- eral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala." Brain Structure and Function 221.3 (2016): 1499-1511.
  • Suggested: Salomons, T. V., Iannetti, G. D., Liang, M., & Wood, J. N. (2016). The “pain matrix” in pain-free indi- viduals. JAMA neurology, 73(6), 755-756.
  • Required: Derbyshire, S. W. (2016). Pain and the Dangers of Objectivity. In Meanings of Pain (pp. 23-36). Springer, Cham.
  • Required: Key, B., & Brown, D. (2018). Designing brains for pain: human to mollusc. Frontiers in physiology, 9,
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Key, B., Zalucki, O., & Brown, D. J. (2022). A First Principles Approach to Subjective Experi- ence. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16.
  • Suggested: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Seminar 3)
  • Suggested: Cowen, R., Stasiowska, M. K., Laycock, H., & Bantel, C. (2015). Assessing pain objectively: the use of physiological markers. Anaesthesia, 70(7), 828-847.
  • Suggested: Coghill, RC (2005) Pain: Making the private experience public in Aydede, M. (2005). Pain: new essays on its nature and the methodology of its study. Pp 299-305
  • Required: Derbyshire, S. W., & Bockmann, J. C. (2020). Reconsidering fetal pain. Journal of Medical Eth- ics, 46(1), 3-6.
  • Required: Salomons, T. V., & Iannetti, G. D. (2022). Fetal pain and its relevance to abortion policy. Nature Neu- roscience, 25(11), 1396-1398.
  • Required: Condic et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organi- zation
  • Required: MacAvoy et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organ- ization
  • Suggested: Braithwaite, V. A., & Boulcott, P. (2007). Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of
  • Suggested: Key, B. (2015). Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal conscious
  • Required: “Living With Pain”, Claire Suddath, Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. http://con- tent.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2055269_2055261-1,00.html
  • Required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
  • Required: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat
  • Required: Tait, R. C., Chibnall, J. T., & Kalauokalani, D. (2009). Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking symptom certainty. Pain Medicine, 10(1), 11-34.
  • Required: Turk, D. C., Wilson, H. D., & Cahana, A. (2011). Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The Lan- cet, 377(9784), 2226-2235.
  • Required: Wall (2000) “How Treatments Work” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 107-124
  • Suggested: Fillingim, R. B., Loeser, J. D., Baron, R., & Edwards, R. R. (2016). The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T10-T20.
  • Suggested: Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others. Can J Nurs Res. 2007 Jun;39(2):88-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 17679587.
  • Suggested: Guilford Press. Pp 3-16.
  • Required: Meske, D. S., Lawal, O. D., Elder, H., Langberg, V., Paillard, F., & Katz, N. (2018). Efficacy of opioids versus placebo in chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of enriched enrollment ran- domized withdrawal trials. Journal of pain research, 11, 923.
  • Required: Belzak, & Halverson (2018). Evidence synthesis-The opioid crisis in Canada: a national perspec- tive. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada: research, policy and prac- tice, 38(6), 224.
  • Required: Goldstone “The Pain Refugees” https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/the-pain-refugees/
  • Required: Suggested Reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • Suggested: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/limiting-opioids-alone-is-not-a-sustainable-pain-care- plan_b_10374856
  • Suggested: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/
  • Required: Engel, G. L. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. The American Journal of Medi- cine, 26(6), 899-918.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Psychology of Pain” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 15-33
  • Required: Large, R. G. (1996). Psychological aspects of pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 55(6), 340–345.
  • Required: Suggested Reading: Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., ... & Apkarian, A. V. (2012). Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature Neuro- science, 15(8), 1117-1119.
  • Suggested: Denk, F., McMahon, S. B., & Tracey, I. (2014). Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective. Na- ture neuroscience, 17(2), 192-200.
  • Required: Lumley, M. A., Cohen, J. L., Borszcz, G. S., Cano, A., Radcliffe, A. M., Porter, L. S., Schubiner, H., & Keefe, F. J. (2011). Pain and emotion: a biopsychosocial review of recent re- search. Journal of clinical psychology, 67(9), 942–968. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20816
  • Required: Ashar, Y. K., Gordon, A., Schubiner, H., Uipi, C., Knight, K., Anderson, Z., ... & Wager, T. D. (2022). Effect of pain reprocessing therapy vs placebo and usual care for patients with chronic back pain: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA psychiatry, 79(1), 13-23.
Winter 2022

Topics

  • Pain Physiology (periphery to spinal cord)
  • Pain Physiology (Brain)

Readings

  • Listed material: Melzack and Wall (1996) “Pain and Injury: the Variable Link” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 4-14
  • Listed material: Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423.
  • Listed material: Cohen, M., Quintner, J., & van Rysewyk, S. (2018). Reconsidering the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain reports, 3(2): e634. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000634
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):439–447 (stop at “Ob- jections to the IASP definition and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Fields, Howard L. "Pain: an unpleasant topic." Pain 82 (1999): S61-S69.
  • Listed material: Suggested Readings Rebuttal to Williams & Craig: Wright, A., & Aydede, M. (2017). Critical comments on Williams and Craig's recent proposal for revising the definition of pain. Pain, 158(2), 362-363. And reply by Williams & Craig Pain, 158(2), 363-365
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):447–464 (starting at “Objections to the IASP definiation and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Duncan, G. (2017). The Meanings of ‘Pain’in Historical, Social, and Political Context. The Mon- ist, 100(4), 514-531.
  • Required: Raja, Srinivasa N.a,*; Carr, Daniel B.b; Cohen, Miltonc; Finnerup, Nanna B.d,e; Flor, Hertaf; Gibson, Stepheng; Keefe, Francis J.h; Mogil, Jeffrey S.i; Ringkamp, Matthiasj; Sluka, Kathleen A.k; Song, Xue-Junl; Stevens, Bonniem; Sullivan, Mark D.n; Tutelman, Perri R.o; Ushida, Takahirop; Vader, Kyleq The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain, PAIN: May 23, 2020 - Volume Articles in Press - Issue - doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939
  • Required: Machery, Edouard, and Justin Sytsma. "Robot pains and corporate feelings." The Philosophers' Mag- azine 52 (2011): 78-82.
  • Required: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Up to “Sense Datum Theo- ries)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Wall (2000) “The Philosophy of Pain” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 17-30
  • Suggested: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 12-58 (Starting at “Sense Datum Theories)
  • Suggested: Price, Donald D. "Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain." Sci- ence 288.5472 (2000): 1769-1772.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Evolution of Pain Theories” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 149-157
  • Required: Perl, Edward R. "Ideas about pain, a historical view." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8.1 (2007): 71-80.
  • Required: Grahek, N. (2007) “The biological function and importance of pain” in Feeling Pain and Being in Pain pp. 12-30
  • Required: Basbaum “Specificity Versus Patterning Theory: Continuing the Debate” Woolf “Transcending Specificity” Casey “Ghosts of Pattern and Specificity” Fields “untitled” Apkarian “A theoretical view of ghosts” In Pain Research Forum, available online at http://www.painresearchforum.org/forums/discus- sion/7347-specificity-versus-patterning-theory-continuing-debate (or google “Pain Research Forum Specificity versus Patterning”)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, S121-S126.
  • Suggested: Melzack R, Wall PD. Pain mechanisms: a new theory. Science. 1965 Nov 19;150(3699):971-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 5320816
  • Suggested: Craig, A. D. (2003). A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(6), 303-307.
  • Required: Iannetti, G. D., Salomons, T. V., Moayedi, M., Mouraux, A., & Davis, K. D. (2013). Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 371-378.
  • Required: Tracey, Irene Neuroimaging mechanisms in pain: from discovery to translation, PAIN: April 2017 - Volume 158 - Issue - p S115-S122 doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000863
  • Required: Salomons TV, (2018) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson RJ (Eds). pp. 291-298The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Derbyshire, S. W. (2016). Pain and the Dangers of Objectivity. In Meanings of Pain (pp. 23-36). Springer, Cham.
  • Suggested: Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397.
  • Suggested: Tracey, I., & Mantyh, P. W. (2007). The cerebral signature for pain perception and its modula- tion. Neuron, 55(3), 377-391.
  • Suggested: Feinstein, Justin S., et al. "Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilat- eral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala." Brain Structure and Function 221.3 (2016): 1499-1511.
  • Suggested: Salomons, T. V., Iannetti, G. D., Liang, M., & Wood, J. N. (2016). The “pain matrix” in pain-free indi- viduals. JAMA neurology, 73(6), 755-756.
  • Required: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/supreme-court-mississippi-abortion-law/index.html
  • Required: Condic et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organi- zation
  • Required: MacAvoy et al (2021) Amicus Brief to US Supreme Court in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organ- ization
  • Suggested: Braithwaite, V. A., & Boulcott, P. (2007). Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of
  • Suggested: Key, B. (2015). Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal conscious
  • Required: Fillingim, R. B., Loeser, J. D., Baron, R., & Edwards, R. R. (2016). The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T10-T20. http://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(15)00865-2/fulltext
  • Required: Coghill, RC (2005) Pain: Making the private experience public in Aydede, M. (2005). Pain: new essays on its nature and the methodology of its study. Pp 299-305
  • Required: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat
  • Required: Tait, R. C., Chibnall, J. T., & Kalauokalani, D. (2009). Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking symptom certainty. Pain Medicine, 10(1), 11-34.
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Seminar 3) Cowen, R., Stasiowska, M. K., Laycock, H., & Bantel, C. (2015). Assessing pain objectively: the use of physiological markers. Anaesthesia, 70(7), 828-847.
  • Suggested: Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others. Can J Nurs Res. 2007 Jun;39(2):88-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 17679587.
  • Suggested: Guilford Press. Pp 3-16.
  • Suggested: Broderick JE, Stone AA, Calvanese P, Schwartz JE, Turk DC. Recalled pain ratings: a complex and poorly defined task. J Pain. 2006 Feb;7(2):142-9. PubMed PMID: 16459280.
  • Suggested: Pain Med. 2015 Jul;16(7):1247-50. doi: 10.1111/pme.12748. PubMed PMID: 26176790.
  • Suggested: Rosier EM, Iadarola MJ, Coghill RC. Reproducibility of pain measurement and pain perception. Pain. 2002 Jul;98(1-2):205-16. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3959(02)00048-9. PMID: 12098633.
  • Required: “Living With Pain”, Claire Sudduth, Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. http://con- tent.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2055269_2055261-1,00.html
  • Required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
  • Required: Turk, D. C., Wilson, H. D., & Cahana, A. (2011). Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The Lan- cet, 377(9784), 2226-2235.
  • Required: Wall (2000) “How Treatments Work” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 107-124
  • Required: Furlan, A. D., Sandoval, J. A., Mailis-Gagnon, A., & Tunks, E. (2006). Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a meta-analysis of effectiveness and side effects. Canadian Medical Association Jour- nal, 174(11), 1589-1594.
  • Required: Goldstone “The Pain Refugees” https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/the-pain-refugees/
  • Required: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html
  • Required: Suggested Reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • Suggested: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/beth-darnall/opioids-limit_b_10374856.html
  • Suggested: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/
  • Required: Engel, G. L. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. The American Journal of Medi- cine, 26(6), 899-918.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Psychology of Pain” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 15-33
  • Required: Denk, F., McMahon, S. B., & Tracey, I. (2014). Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective. Na- ture neuroscience, 17(2), 192-200.
  • Required: Suggested Reading: Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., ... & Apkarian, A. V. (2012). Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature Neuro- science, 15(8), 1117-1119.
  • Required: Large, R. G. (1996). Psychological aspects of pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 55(6), 340–345.
  • Required: Lumley, M. A., Cohen, J. L., Borszcz, G. S., Cano, A., Radcliffe, A. M., Porter, L. S., Schubiner, H., & Keefe, F. J. (2011). Pain and emotion: a biopsychosocial review of recent re- search. Journal of clinical psychology, 67(9), 942–968. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20816
  • Required: Adherence to the values expressed through aca- demic integrity forms a foundation for the "freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas" essential to the intel- lectual life of the University (see the Senate Report on Principles and Priorities http://www.queensu.ca/sec- retariat/policies/senate/report-principles-and-priorities).
Fall 2020

Topics

  • Pain Physiology (periphery to spinal cord)
  • Pain Physiology (Brain)

Readings

  • Listed material: Melzack and Wall (1996) “Pain and Injury: the Variable Link” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 4-14
  • Listed material: Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423.
  • Listed material: Cohen, M., Quintner, J., & van Rysewyk, S. (2018). Reconsidering the International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain reports, 3(2): e634. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000634
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):439–447 (stop at “Ob- jections to the IASP definition and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Fields, Howard L. "Pain: an unpleasant topic." Pain 82 (1999): S61-S69.
  • Listed material: Suggested Readings Rebuttal to Williams & Craig: Wright, A., & Aydede, M. (2017). Critical comments on Williams and Craig's recent proposal for revising the definition of pain. Pain, 158(2), 362-363. And reply by Williams & Craig Pain, 158(2), 363-365
  • Listed material: Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):447–464 (starting at “Objections to the IASP definiation and their rebuttals”)
  • Listed material: Duncan, G. (2017). The Meanings of ‘Pain’in Historical, Social, and Political Context. The Mon- ist, 100(4), 514-531.
  • Required: Raja, Srinivasa N.a,*; Carr, Daniel B.b; Cohen, Miltonc; Finnerup, Nanna B.d,e; Flor, Hertaf; Gibson, Stepheng; Keefe, Francis J.h; Mogil, Jeffrey S.i; Ringkamp, Matthiasj; Sluka, Kathleen A.k; Song, Xue-Junl; Stevens, Bonniem; Sullivan, Mark D.n; Tutelman, Perri R.o; Ushida, Takahirop; Vader, Kyleq The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain, PAIN: May 23, 2020 - Volume Articles in Press - Issue - doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939
  • Required: Machery, Edouard, and Justin Sytsma. "Robot pains and corporate feelings." The Philosophers' Mag- azine 52 (2011): 78-82.
  • Required: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Up to “Sense Datum Theo- ries)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Wall (2000) “The Philosophy of Pain” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 17-30
  • Suggested: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 12-58 (Starting at “Sense Datum Theories)
  • Suggested: Price, Donald D. "Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain." Sci- ence 288.5472 (2000): 1769-1772.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Evolution of Pain Theories” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 149-157
  • Required: Perl, Edward R. "Ideas about pain, a historical view." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8.1 (2007): 71-80.
  • Required: Grahek, N. (2007) “The biological function and importance of pain” in Feeling Pain and Being in Pain pp. 12-30
  • Required: Basbaum “Specificity Versus Patterning Theory: Continuing the Debate” Woolf “Transcending Specificity” Casey “Ghosts of Pattern and Specificity” Fields “untitled” Apkarian “A theoretical view of ghosts” In Pain Research Forum, available online at http://www.painresearchforum.org/forums/discus- sion/7347-specificity-versus-patterning-theory-continuing-debate (or google “Pain Research Forum Specificity versus Patterning”)
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, S121-S126.
  • Suggested: Melzack R, Wall PD. Pain mechanisms: a new theory. Science. 1965 Nov 19;150(3699):971-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 5320816
  • Suggested: Craig, A. D. (2003). A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(6), 303-307.
  • Required: Iannetti, G. D., Salomons, T. V., Moayedi, M., Mouraux, A., & Davis, K. D. (2013). Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 371-378.
  • Required: Tracey, Irene Neuroimaging mechanisms in pain: from discovery to translation, PAIN: April 2017 - Volume 158 - Issue - p S115-S122 doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000863
  • Required: Salomons TV, (2018) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson RJ (Eds). pp. 291-298The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Derbyshire, S. W. (2016). Pain and the Dangers of Objectivity. In Meanings of Pain (pp. 23-36). Springer, Cham.
  • Suggested: Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397.
  • Suggested: Tracey, I., & Mantyh, P. W. (2007). The cerebral signature for pain perception and its modula- tion. Neuron, 55(3), 377-391.
  • Suggested: Feinstein, Justin S., et al. "Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilat- eral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala." Brain Structure and Function 221.3 (2016): 1499-1511.
  • Suggested: Salomons, T. V., Iannetti, G. D., Liang, M., & Wood, J. N. (2016). The “pain matrix” in pain-free indi- viduals. JAMA neurology, 73(6), 755-756.
  • Required: Braithwaite, V. A., & Boulcott, P. (2007). Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of
  • Required: Key, B. (2015). Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal conscious
  • Required: Fillingim, R. B., Loeser, J. D., Baron, R., & Edwards, R. R. (2016). The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T10-T20. http://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(15)00865-2/fulltext
  • Required: Coghill, RC (2005) Pain: Making the private experience public in Aydede, M. (2005). Pain: new essays on its nature and the methodology of its study. Pp 299-305
  • Required: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat
  • Required: Tait, R. C., Chibnall, J. T., & Kalauokalani, D. (2009). Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking symptom certainty. Pain Medicine, 10(1), 11-34.
  • Required: Suggested Readings: Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Seminar 3) Cowen, R., Stasiowska, M. K., Laycock, H., & Bantel, C. (2015). Assessing pain objectively: the use of physiological markers. Anaesthesia, 70(7), 828-847.
  • Suggested: Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others. Can J Nurs Res. 2007 Jun;39(2):88-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 17679587.
  • Suggested: Guilford Press. Pp 3-16.
  • Suggested: Broderick JE, Stone AA, Calvanese P, Schwartz JE, Turk DC. Recalled pain ratings: a complex and poorly defined task. J Pain. 2006 Feb;7(2):142-9. PubMed PMID: 16459280.
  • Suggested: Pain Med. 2015 Jul;16(7):1247-50. doi: 10.1111/pme.12748. PubMed PMID: 26176790.
  • Required: “Living With Pain”, Claire Sudduth, Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. http://con- tent.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2055269_2055261-1,00.html
  • Required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
  • Required: Turk, D. C., Wilson, H. D., & Cahana, A. (2011). Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The Lan- cet, 377(9784), 2226-2235.
  • Required: Wall (2000) “How Treatments Work” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 107-124
  • Required: Furlan, A. D., Sandoval, J. A., Mailis-Gagnon, A., & Tunks, E. (2006). Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a meta-analysis of effectiveness and side effects. Canadian Medical Association Jour- nal, 174(11), 1589-1594.
  • Required: https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/the-pain-refugees/
  • Required: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html
  • Required: Suggested Reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • Suggested: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/beth-darnall/opioids-limit_b_10374856.html
  • Suggested: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/
  • Required: Engel, G. L. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. The American Journal of Medi- cine, 26(6), 899-918.
  • Required: Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Psychology of Pain” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 15-33
  • Required: Denk, F., McMahon, S. B., & Tracey, I. (2014). Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective. Na- ture neuroscience, 17(2), 192-200.
  • Required: Suggested Reading: Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., ... & Apkarian, A. V. (2012). Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature Neuro- science, 15(8), 1117-1119.
  • Required: Large, R. G. (1996). Psychological aspects of pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 55(6), 340–345.
  • Required: Lumley, M. A., Cohen, J. L., Borszcz, G. S., Cano, A., Radcliffe, A. M., Porter, L. S., Schubiner, H., & Keefe, F. J. (2011). Pain and emotion: a biopsychosocial review of recent re- search. Journal of clinical psychology, 67(9), 942–968. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20816
  • Required: Adherence to the values expressed through aca- demic integrity forms a foundation for the "freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas" essential to the intel- lectual life of the University (see the Senate Report on Principles and Priorities http://www.queensu.ca/sec- retariat/policies/senate/report-principles-and-priorities).
Fall 2019

Topics

  • Definitions and measurement of pain
  • mind–body accounts
  • pain physiology
  • brain mechanisms
  • psychology of pain
  • psychological models and interventions
  • cultural and social dimensions.

Readings

  • READING LIST
  • Seminar 1: Introduction and Opening Discussion
  • Seminar 2: What is Pain?
  • Required Readings
  • Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):439–457 (stop at Appendix)
  • Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423.
  • See rebuttal: Wright, A., & Aydede, M. (2017). Critical comments on Williams and Craig's recent proposal for revising the definition of pain. Pain, 158(2), 362-363.
  • And reply by Williams & Craig Pain, 158(2), 363-365
  • Cohen, M., Quintner, J., & van Rysewyk, S. (2018). Reconsidering the International Association for
  • the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain reports, 3(2): e634. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000634
  • Suggested Readings
  • Aydede M (2017) Defending the IASP Definition of Pain, The Monist 100 (4):457–464 (Appendix: Is
  • the IASP Definition Merely and Operational Definition)
  • Fields, Howard L. "Pain: an unpleasant topic." Pain 82 (1999): S61-S69.
  • Duncan, G. (2017). The Meanings of ‘Pain’in Historical, Social, and Political Context. The Monist, 100(4), 514-531.
  • Seminar 3: Pain: Body and Mind
  • Required Readings:
  • Melzack and Wall (1996) “Pain and Injury: the Variable Link” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp.
  • 4-14
  • Wall (2000) “The Philosophy of Pain” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 17-30
  • Machery, Edouard, and Justin Sytsma. "Robot pains and corporate feelings." The Philosophers' Magazine 52 (2011): 78-82.
  • Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12
  • Suggested Readings:
  • Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 12-58
  • Price, Donald D. "Psychological and neural mechanisms of the affective dimension of pain." Science 288.5472 (2000): 1769-1772.
  • Seminar 4: Discussion: Is an objective measure of pain possible?
  • Derbyshire, S. W. (2016). Pain and the Dangers of Objectivity. In Meanings of Pain (pp. 23-36).
  • Springer, Cham.
  • Cowen, R., Stasiowska, M. K., Laycock, H., & Bantel, C. (2015). Assessing pain objectively: the use of
  • physiological markers. Anaesthesia, 70(7), 828-847.
  • Readings to Review:
  • Aydede (2009) “Pain” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pp. 2-12 (Seminar 3)
  • Seminar 5: How Do We Communicate Pain?
  • Coghill, RC (2005) Pain: Making the private experience public in Aydede, M. (2005). Pain: new essays
  • on its nature and the methodology of its study. Pp 299-305
  • Tait, R. C., Chibnall, J. T., & Kalauokalani, D. (2009). Provider judgments of patients in pain: seeking
  • symptom certainty. Pain Medicine, 10(1), 11-34.
  • http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170110-why-pain-is-so-hard-to-measure---and-treat
  • Prkachin KM, Solomon PE, Ross J. Underestimation of pain by health-care
  • providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others.
  • Can J Nurs Res. 2007
  • Jun;39(2):88-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 17679587.
  • Turk and Melzack (2011) The Measurement of Pain and the Assessment of People Experiencing Pain
  • in Turk, D. C., & Melzack, R. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of pain assessment. Guilford Press. Pp 3-16.
  • Fillingim, R. B., Loeser, J. D., Baron, R., & Edwards, R. R. (2016). Assessment of chronic pain: domains,
  • methods, and mechanisms. The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T10-T20.
  • http://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(15)00865-2/fulltext
  • Broderick JE, Stone AA, Calvanese P, Schwartz JE, Turk DC. Recalled pain ratings: a complex and
  • poorly defined task. J Pain. 2006 Feb;7(2):142-9. PubMed PMID: 16459280.
  • Bačkonja MM, Farrar JT. Are Pain Ratings Irrelevant? Pain Med. 2015 Jul;16(7):1247-50. doi:
  • 10.1111/pme.12748. PubMed PMID: 26176790.
  • Seminar 6
  • Discussion: Specificity or pattern?
  • Basbaum “Specificity Versus Patterning Theory: Continuing the Debate”
  • Woolf “Transcending Specificity”
  • Casey “Ghosts of Pattern and Specificity”
  • Fields “untitled”
  • Apkarian “A theoretical view of ghosts”
  • In Pain Research Forum, available online at http://www.painresearchforum.org/forums/discussion/7347-specificity-versus-patterning-theory-continuing-debate
  • (or google “Pain Research Forum Specificity versus Patterning”)
  • Melzack, R. (1999). From the gate to the neuromatrix. Pain, 82, S121-S126.
  • Seminar 7
  • Pain Physiology (History and the Periphery)
  • Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Evolution of Pain Theories” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp.
  • 149-164
  • Perl, Edward R. "Ideas about pain, a historical view." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8.1 (2007): 71-80.
  • Grahek, N. (2007) “The biological function and importance of pain” in Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
  • pp. 7-28
  • Melzack R, Wall PD. Pain mechanisms: a new theory. Science. 1965 Nov 19;150(3699):971-9. Review.
  • PubMed PMID: 5320816
  • Craig, A. D. (2003). A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion. Trends in Neurosciences, 26(6),
  • 303-307.
  • Seminar 8
  • Discussion: Is the anterior cingulate selective for pain?
  • Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2015). The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is selective for
  • pain: Results from large-scale reverse inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(49), 15250-15255.
  • And see rebuttals
  • Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Botvinick, M. M., Chang, L. J., Coghill, R. C., Davis, K. D., ... & Yarkoni, T. (2016). Pain in the ACC?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(18),
  • E2474-E2475.
  • http://shackmanlab.org/the-importance-of-respecting-variation-in-cingulate-anatomy-comment-on-lieberman-eisenberger-2015-and-yarkoni/
  • http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2015/12/05/no-the-dorsal-anterior-cingulate-is-not-selective-for-pain-comment-on-lieberman-and-eisenberger-2015/
  • Seminar 9
  • Pain Physiology (The Brain)
  • Salomons TV, (2018) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson
  • RJ (Eds). pp. 291-298The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford
  • University Press.
  • Iannetti, G. D., Salomons, T. V., Moayedi, M., Mouraux, A., & Davis, K. D. (2013). Beyond metaphor:
  • contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 371-378.
  • Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based
  • neurologic signature of physical pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397.
  • Tracey, I., & Mantyh, P. W. (2007). The cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation. Neuron, 55(3), 377-391.
  • Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., ... & Apkarian, A. V.
  • (2012). Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature Neuroscience, 15(8), 1117-1119.
  • Shackman, Alexander J., et al. "The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the
  • cingulate cortex." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12.3 (2011): 154-167.
  • Feinstein, Justin S., et al. "Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilateral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala." Brain Structure and Function 221.3
  • (2016): 1499-1511.
  • Salomons, T. V., Iannetti, G. D., Liang, M., & Wood, J. N. (2016). The “pain matrix” in pain-free individuals. JAMA neurology, 73(6), 755-756.
  • Seminar 10
  • Discussion: Is there such a thing as a “pain prone patient”
  • Engel, G. L. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. The American Journal of Medicine, 26(6), 899-918.
  • Melzack and Wall (1996) “The Psychology of Pain” in The Challenge of Pain 2nd Edition, pp. 15-33
  • Sullivan and Baden (2011) Assessment of Psychiatric Disorders in Turk, D. C., & Melzack, R. (Eds.).
  • (2011). Handbook of pain assessment. Guilford Press. Pp 407-411 (start at “Somatoform Disorders)
  • (2011). Handbook of pain assessment. Guilford Press. Pp 399-407 (up to “Somatoform Disorders)
  • Seminar 11
  • The Psychology of Pain
  • Large, R. G. (1996). Psychological aspects of pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 55(6), 340–345.
  • Wiech K. (2016) Deconstructing the sensation of pain: The influence of cognitive processes on pain
  • perception. Science. 354(6312):584-587
  • Katz, J., Rosenbloom, B. N., & Fashler, S. (2015). Chronic Pain, Psychopathology, and DSM-5 Somatic
  • Symptom Disorder. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie, 60(4), 160–
  • 167.
  • Turk, D. C., Fillingim, R. B., Ohrbach, R., & Patel, K. V. (2016). Assessment of psychosocial and functional impact of chronic pain. The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T21-T49.
  • Bushnell, M. C., Čeko, M., & Low, L. A. (2013). Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 14(7), 502–511. http://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3516
  • Aydede, Murat, and Güven Güzeldere. "Some foundational problems in the scientific study of
  • pain." Philosophy of Science 69.S3 (2002): S265-S283.
  • Seminar 12
  • Discussion: Should emotional or social “pain” be called pain?
  • Required Reading:
  • Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2005). Why It Hurts to Be Left Out: The Neurocognitive Overlap Between Physical and Social Pain. In K. D. Williams, J. P. Forgas, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Sydney
  • Symposium of Social Psychology series. The social outcast: Ostracism, social exclusion, rejection,
  • and bullying (pp. 109-127). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
  • Seminar 13
  • Psychological Models and Interventions
  • Jensen, M. P., & Turk, D. C. (2014). Contributions of psychology to the understanding and treatment
  • of people with chronic pain: Why it matters to ALL psychologists. American Psychologist, 69(2), 105-
  • 118.
  • Edwards, R. R., Dworkin, R. H., Sullivan, M. D., Turk, D. C., & Wasan, A. D. (2016). The role of psy
  • chosocial processes in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. The Journal of Pain, 17(9),
  • T70-T92
  • Asmundson, Gordon & gómez, Lydia & Richter, Ashley & Carleton, R. Nicholas. (2012). The Psychology of Pain: Models and Targets for Comprehensive Assessment.
  • Crofford, L. J. (2015). Chronic Pain: Where the Body Meets the Brain. Transactions of the American
  • Clinical and Climatological Association, 126, 167–183.
  • The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (2001) Pain: Current understanding of assessment, management and treatment. Read Chapter 1 “Background and Significance”
  • pp 3-17
  • Bridges, S. (2012). Chronic pain. Health, social care and lifestyles, 291.
  • http://content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB09300/HSE2011-Ch9-Chronic-Pain.pdf
  • Apkarian AV, Baliki MN, Geha PY. Towards a theory of chronic pain. Prog Neurobiol. 2009
  • Feb;87(2):81-97.
  • Seminar 14
  • Chronic pain panel discussion
  • “Living With Pain”, Claire Sudduth, Time Magazine, March 11, 2011. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2055269_2055261-1,00.html
  • Seminar 15
  • Clinical pain disorders and treatments
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
  • Turk, D. C., Wilson, H. D., & Cahana, A. (2011). Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. The Lancet, 377(9784), 2226-2235.
  • Wall (2000) “How Treatments Work” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 107-124
  • Readings to Review
  • Seminar 16
  • Discussion: Are opioids worth the risk?
  • Furlan, A. D., Sandoval, J. A., Mailis-Gagnon, A., & Tunks, E. (2006). Opioids for chronic noncancer
  • pain: a meta-analysis of effectiveness and side effects. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 174(11), 1589-1594.
  • https://harpers.org/archive/2018/04/the-pain-refugees/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html
  • Suggested Reading:
  • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/beth-darnall/opioids-limit_b_10374856.html
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/06/opioid-epidemic/563576/
  • Seminar 17
  • Discussion: Is pain the best treatment target for chronic pain?
  • Ballantyne, J. C., & Sullivan, M. D. (2015). Intensity of chronic pain—the wrong metric?. New England
  • Journal of Medicine, 373(22), 2098-2099.
  • Seminar 18
  • Discussion: Do fish feel pain?
  • Braithwaite, V. A., & Boulcott, P. (2007). Pain perception, aversion and fear in fish. Diseases of
  • aquatic organisms, 75(2), 131-138.
  • Key, B. (2015). Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal conscious
  • ness. Biology & philosophy, 30(2), 149-165.
  • Seminar 19
  • Discussion: Should pain diagnoses only be based on mechanisms?
  • Finnerup, N. B., & Jensen, T. S. (2006). Mechanisms of disease: mechanism-based classification of
  • neuropathic pain—a critical analysis. Nature Reviews Neurology, 2(2), 107.
  • Wall (2000) “Pain Without a Cause” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 93-106
  • Recommended Reading: Vardeh, D., Mannion, R. J., & Woolf, C. J. (2016). Toward a mechanismbased approach to pain diagnosis. The Journal of Pain, 17(9), T50-T69.
  • Seminar 20
  • Discussion: Is pain inherently social?
  • http://psychology.jrank.org/human-behavior/pages/cmxyrs6alw/private-events-verbal-individual.html
  • Williams AC, Craig KD. (2016) Updating the definition of pain, Pain 157(11):2420-2423. (Seminar 2)
  • on its nature and the methodology of its study. Pp 299-305 (Seminar 5)
  • Seminar 21
  • Discussion: Should race, culture and gender be considerations when treating pain?
  • Wall (2000) “Cultural Stereotypes” in Pain: The Science of Suffering 1st Edition, pp 67-70
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