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Refers to that quality of the pain experience that causes pain to be unpleasant or aversive. It may be involved in the „suffering“ component of persistent pain, and could also involve separate neural pathways in the brain than those involved in the sensory-discriminative component of pain (discrimination and localization of a painful stimulus).
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(2007). Affective Component (Aspekt, Dimension) of Pain. In: Schmidt, R., Willis, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_119
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