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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2010

Chronic headaches and the neurobiology of somatization.

Jonathan M Borkum

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. [Neurobiology of posttraumatic and somatoform disorders in the elderly].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2014
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  7. Consultation-liaison psychiatry for patients with headaches.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jonathan M BorkumDepartment of Psychology, University of Maine, Waterville, ME 04901, USA. jborkum@hpmaine.com

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain sensitivity is an adaptive process affected by expectation, mood, coping, operant conditioning, and the preconscious allocation of attention. Underlying mechanisms may include encoding of similar experiences (eg, depression, loss, pain-distress) in overlapping patterns of activation, failure of common regulatory mechanisms, direct top-down activation of the pain matrix, and changes in descending pain facilitatory and inhibitory tone. In theory, the combination of glial cell activation from psychological stress and neural firing from nociceptive input may be particularly likely to lead to pain sensitization and long-term structural changes in pain processing regions of the brain. In these ways, headaches in which chronicity, diffuseness, and distress seem better accounted for by psychological than by medical variables can be understood in neurobiological terms. This can allow psychological treatment of physical distress to be objective, nonthreatening, and relatively precise.

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BrainChronic DiseaseConversion DisorderDepressionHeadache DisordersHumansSomatoform DisordersStress, Psychological

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