causally downstream of emotional experience sensory experience sensory perception of pain pain 2024-06-13T18:46:52Z The "emotional" part of pain captures the affective (i.e., unpleasant) dimension of experiencing pain. pain (PAIN) Six key notes and etymology: - Pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological, and social factors. - Pain and nociception are different phenomena. Pain cannot be inferred solely from activity in sensory neurons. - Through their life experiences, individuals learn the concept of pain. - A person’s report of an experience as pain should be respected. - Although pain usually serves an adaptive role, it may have adverse effects on function and social and psychological well-being. - Verbal description is only one of several behaviors to express pain; inability to communicate does not negate the possibility that a human or a nonhuman animal experiences pain. An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage. - The Revised IASP definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680716/ - Merskey H, Albe-Fessard DG, Bonica JJ, et al: Pain terms: A list with definitions and notes on usage. Recommended by the IASP Subcommittee on Taxonomy. Pain 1979; 6:249-252. http://www.iasp-pain.org/source/eforums. Bill Duncan