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The context of a noxious stimulus affects the pain it evokes published in Pain 133, 1-3 64-71
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Meaning affects our pain experience
Lorimer MoseleyNHMRC Senior Research FellowPrince of Wales Medical Research Institute & School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Team leaderThe GAMFI projectUniversity of Oxford, UK
Los Angeles, June 2009
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The context of a noxious Stimulus affects the pain it evokesPain 133, 1-3 64-71
© GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au
© GL Moseley www.BodyInMind.com.au
Manipulated meaning of nociceptive stimulus
-20ºC probe
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Manipulated meaning of nociceptive stimulus - HOT
-20ºC probe “hot”
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Manipulated meaning of nociceptive stimulus - COLD
-20ºC probe “cold”
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Very cold (-20ºC) stimulus associated with a red or a blue light
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Blue light
Pain
Moseley & Arntz 2007 PAIN In press© GL Moseley
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Visual clues that imply more or less danger change the pain evoked by identical stimuli
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