BMI Seminar // Learning, plasticity and pain: implications for treatment
Event details
| Date | 18.01.2017 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Herta Flor, Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, The Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
We report evidence that both implicit learning such as sensitization, pavlovian and instrumental conditioning and explicit memory processes play a major role in the development and maintenance of chronic pain.
These data confirm the view that learning processes may be more important for the acquisition and maintenance of chronic pain than peripheral nociceptive input. Therapeutic implications of these findings suggest that pain treatments must start early and that treatments of chronic pain should focus on the extinction of these aversive pain memories and can involve both pharmacological and behavioral interventions designed to prevent or reverse maladaptive pain-related memory traces.
These data confirm the view that learning processes may be more important for the acquisition and maintenance of chronic pain than peripheral nociceptive input. Therapeutic implications of these findings suggest that pain treatments must start early and that treatments of chronic pain should focus on the extinction of these aversive pain memories and can involve both pharmacological and behavioral interventions designed to prevent or reverse maladaptive pain-related memory traces.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- EPFL SV BMI Host : M. Herzog