ArticleEvolution, medicine, and public health2023
Pain: Behavioural expression and response in an evolutionary framework.
Article in Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Reconfiguring Pain Interpretation Within a Social Model of Health Using a Simplified Version of Wilber's All Quadrant All Levels Framework: An Integral Vision.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Macrophages hit a nerve in painful joint venture.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2025Article
- Neuroimmune Pain and Its Manipulation by Pathogens.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
- Unveiling the Truth in Pain: Neural and Behavioral Distinctions Between Genuine and Deceptive Pain.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Clinical interpretation of body language and behavioral modifications to recognize pain in domestic mammals.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- The Intersection of Interoception and Anticipation Related to Pain.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- An integral vision of pain and its persistence: a whole-person, whole-system, salutogenic perspective.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Locus Coeruleus in Chronic Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Exploring the hypothetical role of cerebellar pain prediction errors in fibromyalgia-associated chronic pain.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
An evolutionary perspective offers insights into the major public health problem of chronic (persistent) pain; behaviours associated with it perpetuate both pain and disability. Pain is motivating, and pain-related behaviours promote recovery by immediate active or passive defence; subsequent protection of wounds; suppression of competing responses; energy conservation; vigilance to threat; and learned avoidance of associated cues. When these persist beyond healing, as in chronic pain, they are disabling. In mammals, facial and bodily expression of pain is visible and identifiable by others, while social context, including conspecifics' responses, modulate pain. Studies of responses to pain emphasize onlooker empathy, but people with chronic pain report feeling disbelieved and stigmatized. Observers frequently discount others' pain, best understood in terms of cheater detection-alertness to free riders that underpins the capacity for prosocial behaviours. These dynamics occur both in everyday life and in clinical encounters, providing an account of the adaptiveness of pain-related behaviours.
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