Wager Tor D
Cerebrum. 2022 Mar 1;2022. eCollection 2022 Mar-Apr.
More than 20 percent of US adults suffer from some form of chronic pain. Our author, a cognitive psychologist and head of Dartmouth College's Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, examines the relationship among our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about pain and the actual physical pain that we feel, what pain looks like in the brain, and how new research findings are leading to effective new treatments.
超过20%的美国成年人患有某种形式的慢性疼痛。我们的作者是一位认知心理学家,也是达特茅斯学院认知与情感神经科学实验室的负责人,他研究了我们对疼痛的想法、感受和信念与我们实际感受到的身体疼痛之间的关系,疼痛在大脑中的表现,以及新的研究发现如何带来有效的新治疗方法。