Pain and the emotional brain: pain-related cortical processes are better reflected by affective evaluation than by cognitive evaluation

Abstract The experience of pain has been dissociated into two interwoven aspects: a sensory-discriminative aspect and an affective-motivational aspect. We aimed to explore which of the pain descriptors is more deeply rooted in the human brain. Participants were asked to evaluate applied cold pain. T...

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Main Authors: Anne Stankewitz, Astrid Mayr, Stephanie Irving, Viktor Witkovsky, Enrico Schulz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35294-2