Join Log in Profile Search

Pain and agony?

blogs, contributions, summaries, study assistance and experiences abroad

Image
Table of related content to: Pain and agony

   

Image

Latest

Latest changes and updates tagged with: Pain and agony

Welke soorten stress heb je en wat zijn de effecten op je lichaam en je geest?

Er bestaan verschillende soorten stress, elk met hun eigen kenmerken en effecten op lichaam en geest. Hieronder bespreken we enkele van de meest voorkomende types:

1. Acute stress:

  • Dit is een kortdurende, intense stressreactie die wordt veroorzaakt door een plotselinge gebeurtenis, zoals een ongeluk, een schrikmoment of een deadline.
  • De lichamelijke symptomen van acute stress zijn onder andere een verhoogde hartslag, transpiratie, spierverspanning
.......read more

What is pain and how to deal with pain? - Chapter 16 - Exclusive

Back to top

What does the experience of pain entail?

Pain is not simply the presence or absence of pain stimuli. There are a number of physiological and psychological explanations for why and how we experience pain. People respond differently to acute pain than to chronic pain, so there are different ways of dealing with those two types of pain.

Most people have experienced pain sometimes. Experiencing pain is not pleasant for most people, but it is

.........Read more
Access: 
Exclusive (for members with extra services and online access)

What influence does stress have on pain perception? - Chapter 9 - Exclusive

In this chapter the influence of stress on the perception of pain will be discussed.

Back to top

Where does pain arise?

Pain arises in receptors throughout the body. Some types of pain are located deep in the body, such as muscle pain and pain from damage to the organs. Other types of pain are more on the surface, such as pain from skin damage.

Some pain receptors only provide information about pain, others provide information about pain as well as everyday perceptions. These two can be distinguished by

.........Read more
Access: 
Exclusive (for members with extra services and online access)

How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied? – Chapter 6 - Exclusive

Sensation refers to the basic processes in which senses and the nervous system respond to stimuli from the environment and the elemental psychological experiences that arise from those processes. Perception refers to the more complex organization of sensory information in the brain and to the meaningful interpretations that are extracted from it.

Back to top

What are sensory processes?

The process associated with sensation is as follows:

physical stimulus → physical response → sensory experience.

The physical stimulus is the matter or energy from the physical world that falls on the senses. The physical response is the chemical and electrical activity pattern that occurs in

.........Read more
Access: 
Exclusive (for members with extra services and online access)

Summary of The boy who was raised as a dog by Perry

Back to top

1. Tina

Tina is a girl and she is seven years old. She lives with her younger brother, sister and her mother.  According to her teachers, Tina behaves 'aggressively, improperly and exhibitionistically'. She is unable to keep her attention during class and refuses to follow instructions. She had been abused since she was four years old until the age of six by the son of her babysitter. This son tied up the children, raped them and penetrated them anally using objects. He threatened the children by saying that he would kill

.........Read more
Access: 
Public

Anxiety- and mood disorders

This is a bundle with information about anxiety- and mood disorders.
The bundle is based on the course anxiety- and mood disorders taught at the third year of psychology at the University of Amsterdam.

A contemporary learning theory perspective on the etiology of anxiety disorders: It’s not what you thought it was - a summary by an article by Mineka, & Zinbarg
Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach - a summary of an article by Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek & Vervliet
Tackling maladaptive memories through reconsolidation: From neural to clinical science - a summary of an article by Elsey& Kindt (2017).
Is depression an adaptation? - summary of an article by Nesse
Genotype–environment correlations: Implications for determining the relationship between environmental exposures and psychiatric illness - summary of an article by Jaffee and Price
The subjective experience of emotion: A fearful view - summary of an article by LeDoux and Hofmann (2018)
Social anxiety disorder: A critical overview of neurocognitive research - a summary of an article by Cremers & Roelofs
Hormones and psychiatric disorders - summary of part of Why zebras don't get ulcers: The acclaimed guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping-now revised and updated by Sapolsky
Cortisol stress reactivity across psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis - summary of an article by Zorn. et al (2017)
Cognitive theories of emotion - summary of chapter 3 of Cognition and emotion: form order to disorder
Cognitive theories of emotional disorder - summary of chapter 4 of Cognition and emotion: from order to disorder
A cognitive approach to panic - summary of an article by Clark (1986)
Modification of information processing biases in emotional disorders: Clinically relevant developments in experimental psychopathology - summary of an article by Baert, Koster and de Raedt (2011)
Attention - summary of (part of) chapter 2 of Cognitive behavioural processes across psychological disorders: A transdiagnostic approach to research and treatment
Thought - summary of (part of) chapter 5 of Cognitive behavioural processes across psychological disorders: A transdiagnostic approach to research and treatment
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: Nature, development, treatment and prevention - summary of chapter F1 of e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Depression in children and adolescents - summary of chapter E.1 of Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Interpersonal processes in social phobia - summary of an article by Alden & Taylor (2004)
Interpersonal processes in depression - summary of an article by James, Hagan & Joiner (2013)
Familial and social environments in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders - summary of an article by Hudson & Rapee (2009)
Anxiety and mood disorders, uva
Anxiety and mood disorders
Clinical psychology
Access: 
Public

Search

Check or search within topic: Pain and agony
Displaying 1 - 4 of 6
Icon How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied? – Chapter 6 - Exclusive
How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied? – Chapter 6 - Exclusive

Sensation refers to the basic processes in which senses and the nervous system respond to stimuli from the environment and the elemental psychological experiences that arise from those processes. Perception refers to the more complex organization of sensory information in the brain an...

Pages

Check or search within: all content

Select any filter and click on Apply to see results

Check or search within: topics, countries and studies only

Search countries, goals, studies, topics or working fields

Related topics and terms

Related to the topic: Pain and agony
Relations of the topic: Pain and agony

Spotlight: selection

Spotlight: favorites

Spotlight stories and suggestions related to Pain and agony
Icon Anxiety- and mood disorders
Image

This is a bundle with information about anxiety- and mood disorders. The bundle is based on the course anxiety- and mood disorders taught at the third year of psychology at the University of Amsterdam.

Spotlight summaries related to Pain and agony
Icon How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied? – Chapter 6 - Exclusive
How are smell, taste, pain and hearing studied? – Chapter 6 - Exclusive

Sensation refers to the basic processes in which senses and the nervous system respond to stimuli from the environment and the elemental psychological experiences that arise from those processes. Perception refers to the more complex organization of sensory information in the brain an...

Selected Worldsupporter pages in relation with the topic