Sentence examples for state pain from inspiring English sources

Likewise, according to the functionalist, what makes a state pain is not its particular neural configuration.

For (a still simplistic) example, consider the sort of generalizations about pain introduced before: pain tends to be caused by bodily injury; pain tends to produce the belief that something is wrong with the body and the desire to be out of that state; pain tends to produce anxiety; pain tends to produce wincing or moaning.

We present an analysis of such an approach, highlighting the major problems in identifying mechanisms in patients, and develop a framework for a pain diagnostic ladder that may prove useful in the future, consisting of successive identification of 3 steps: pain state, pain mechanism, and molecular target.

In our current environment of confusion and bias, the formation of state pain commissions offers an opportunity to truly transform the way that pain is treated across the country and in our own back yards.

Nearly a decade ago, David Joranson, founder of the Pain Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin, and an expert consultant to the World Health Organization, recommended the creation of state pain commissions in response to this problem.

The areas cover activities of daily living, emotional state, pain, fatigue, social participation, and perceptions of health.

The reviewed experiments addressed a variety of outcomes, including emotional states, pain perception, creativity, task-performance, and indices of autonomic arousal.

In Denmark no one stated pain relief as a motive, while in Norway this was the third highest ranked reason.

As cancer pain can occur in conjunction with a number of other symptoms, such as depression, anxiety and experiencing fluctuating mood states, pain may underlie those psychological consequences (Grond et al, 1994).

Together these findings suggest that any early pain-specific increased respiration should be attenuated in the tonic state of pain.

Others emphasize the "affective states" of animals – states like pain, distress and pleasure that are experienced as positive or negative.