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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Irene Tracey\nhosted by Tim Vogels and Peter Jonas\nAb
 stract: Pain is one of the oldest and most vital sensory and emotional exp
 eriences shared across the animal kingdom. It is vital to survival in its 
 everyday acute pain form. However\, chronic pain\, defined as pain that pe
 rsists beyond normal tissue healing time\, is one of the largest medical h
 ealth problems in the developed world affecting one in five adults. It not
  only brings untold suffering to the patient and their families but it is 
 also enormously costly to society in financial terms. Current treatments a
 re inadequate but in recent years the scientific discoveries are giving us
  new ways to think about chronic pain and its underpinning mechanisms\, in
 formed by neuroimaging that can help us ‘see’ pain and better explain 
 why a patient is suffering. New mechanisms lead to new treatments and so t
 he future looks bright. Further\, we have been able to understand some of 
 the long-standing mysteries of the subjective pain experience: placebos\, 
 nocebos\, why fear and anxiety make pain worse\, and why distraction makes
  pain less – as just a few examples that illustrate the mismatch and non
 -linearity between injury and perception. This talk will describe experime
 nts that have given us mechanistic insight into this non-linearity. Finall
 y\, anaesthesia is one of the most dramatic examples of conscious manipula
 tion aimed at allowing surgery without pain\, awareness and movement. Our 
 understanding of the systems-level human brain mechanisms that produce alt
 ered states of conscious awareness during anaesthesia has been relatively 
 poor until recently. This talk will describe the various EEG and neuroimag
 ing experiments that Irene’s team have performed to better understand pe
 rceptual unawareness.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:maria.arias.sutil@ista.ac.at
SUMMARY:Irene Tracey: Understanding Human Pain and Altered States of Consci
 ous Awareness Through Advanced Neuroimaging
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/5356
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