The phrase "affective pain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing emotional or psychological pain, often in psychological or medical discussions.
Example: "The patient reported experiencing affective pain, which seemed to stem from unresolved trauma."
Alternatives: "emotional pain" or "psychological distress".
Repeated headaches induce negative affects with negative cognitive, affective (pain fear) and physiologic consequences, according to an individual dimension of "pain sensibility".
The influence of affect and attention on sensory and affective pain as well as on somatosensory evoked potentials in response to painful and nonpainful electrical stimuli was investigated in a single experimental design.
Prof. Min Zhuo and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, for example, have bred mice lacking enzymes that operate in affective pain pathways.
(The same is true of people who are given morphine, because there are more receptors for opiates in the affective pain pathway than in the sensory pain pathway).
The SF-MPQ has been widely used to differentiate between reports of sensory and affective pain.
The insula is functionally connected with the anterior cingulate gyrus [38] and both structures participate in affective pain processing.
Pleasure and approach seem to mutually facilitate each other, as do affective pain and withdrawal (Neumann, Förster, and Strack 2003).
"Valence" is also used in psychological literature to mark the same contrast between affective pleasure and affective pain, or distress.
Sensory and affective pain ratings were generally lower during exposure to positive compared to negative and neutral pictures.
In fact, the affective pain perception is probably related to the integrity of cognitive functions as in mild TBI and in severe TBI with good cognitive outcome.
Other resting-state fMRI studies also found abnormal mPFC activity to be implicated in the abnormal affective pain perception, cognition, and modulation in migraineurs [25, 36, 47].
