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Behavioral and Neurochemical Aspects of Pediatric Pain

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Behavioral Pediatrics

Abstract

Pain represents a complex psychophysiological phenomenon involving cognitive, neurochemical, sensory, affective, emotional, and motivational components which act in synergistic fashion to produce varying degrees of intensity perception and reactions differing across individuals and socioenvironmental conditions (Beecher, 1959; Melzack, 1973; Merskey, 1970; Varni, 1981a, 1981b). Pain may be described along the dimensions of quality (dull, sharp, burning), anatomical location and duration and within a threshold/tolerance perspective (unbearable). The verbal expression of pain along these linguistic dimensions represents a developmental learning process, whereby the child learns to label nociceptive impulses in the language of his/her particular cultural environment.

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