Beyond metaphor: contrasting mechanisms of social and physical pain.

Abstract:

:Physical pain can be clearly distinguished from other states of distress. In recent years, however, the notion that social distress is experienced as physically painful has permeated the scientific literature and popular media. This conclusion is based on the overlap of brain regions that respond to nociceptive input and sociocultural distress. Here we challenge the assumption that underlies this conclusion - that physical pain can be easily inferred from a particular pattern of activated brain regions - by showing that patterns of activation commonly presumed to constitute the 'pain matrix' are largely unspecific to pain. We then examine recent analytical advances that may improve the specificity of imaging for parsing pain from a broad range of perceptually unique human experiences.

journal_name

Trends Cogn Sci

authors

Iannetti GD,Salomons TV,Moayedi M,Mouraux A,Davis KD

doi

10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-08-01 00:00:00

pages

371-8

issue

8

eissn

1364-6613

issn

1879-307X

pii

S1364-6613(13)00120-4

journal_volume

17

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