Meaning affects our pain experience

Los Angeles, June 2009 Meaning affects our pain experience Lorimer Moseley NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute & School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Team leader The GAMFI project University of Oxford, UK © GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au

The context of a noxious Stimulus affects the pain it evokes Pain 133, 1-3 64-71 © GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au

Manipulated meaning of nociceptive stimulus -20ºC probe © GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au

Manipulated meaning of nociceptive stimulus - HOT -20ºC probe “hot” © GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au

Very cold (-20ºC) stimulus associated with a red or a blue light 10 Pain 5 0 Red Blue light light © GL Moseley Moseley & Arntz 2007 PAIN In press www.BodyInMind.com.au

Visual clues that imply more or less danger change the pain evoked by identical stimuli © GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au

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