Hey Mary,
I am sorry to hear about your mother's chronic pain and the onset of yours. It must give you an interesting perspective on this forum topic and this class. I thought it was especially interesting to learn about how perpetuated psychological pain can result in the over-activation of pain circuits to the brain. It reminds me of the experiment when scientists injected more nociceptin into rats and how the increase of the transmitter increases the amount of pain. Pain is a very complicated and interesting topic and I am very interested to see how studies in the connection between psychology and biology progress.
I am sorry to hear about your mother's chronic pain and the onset of yours. It must give you an interesting perspective on this forum topic and this class. I thought it was especially interesting to learn about how perpetuated psychological pain can result in the over-activation of pain circuits to the brain. It reminds me of the experiment when scientists injected more nociceptin into rats and how the increase of the transmitter increases the amount of pain. Pain is a very complicated and interesting topic and I am very interested to see how studies in the connection between psychology and biology progress.