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Pain is the most common symptom that brings a patient to the physician. However, pain has no standard definition. It is helpful to consider that pain may have at least two components: physiologic and psychologic components. In fact, neurophysiologists and most neuropharmacologists use the word pain to mean the appropriate response of specific pathways within the nervous system to noxious stimuli, with the potential for producing tissue injury. On the other hand, clinical psychologists mean that an individual complains of pain, whether or not a physiological stimulus is identified.
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Satoh, M. (1991). Neuropeptides and Nociception in the Spinal Cord. In: Carlson, J.G., Seifert, A.R. (eds) International Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Health. The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2596-1_15
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