The Human Perception of Pain in Conjunction with the Mind-Body Problem

The Human Perception of Pain in Conjunction with the Mind- torso ProblemThere is more investi adit surfacing supporting the notion that people can control their injure. What is left under-examined is the notion of whether the trouble oneself is mediated by the brainpower, mind, or both. We all know that pain is an instinctive sense if you will, necessary to the survival of all living beings. Without pain, it would go unrecognized and exacerbate to the point of death. Pain is a protective mechanism prerequisite to survival. There are three important claims here One is that pain is actually a perception. The second, is the brain mediates the suppression of pain through a gate in the spinal cord. Lastly, since pain is a perception, the mind may decide the degree to which the gate is open, which therefore influences to amount of pain reaching the brain. Recent explore provides evidence that certain brain structures mediate the spinal cord gate. Still controversial is whether recept ivity to pain is biological in origin and completely restricted on the brain, or whether the mind, the entity in an individual responsible for thought, and feelings, conscious or unconscious, controls the nervous system and in the end manipulates ones perception of pain. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (1). When pain is described in these terms we can see that pain is a perception, sort of like seeing and hearing. When pain is processed there are a number of brain structures activated, commonly referred to as the central pain matrix (2). It may seem irrelevant to delve into pain signal activation in the brain since it is seemi... ...that ones entire perception of pain may be conscious in origin and simply correlate to the mechanisms of the brain, rather than stem from just the brain entirely. References1)Pain Anatomy http//www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/ ranney/painanat.html2)The Human Perception of Pain http//dubinserver.colorado.edu/prj/nva/humanperception.html3)Brain Pain Pathways http//psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/19/intro.shtml?sso=true4)Modification of pain within the spinal cordhttp//www.manbit.com/obstetspain/obnlp3.htm 5)The Skeptics Dictionary http//skepdic.com/mind.html6)Mind and Body Interactions http//www.mindbody.org/ 7)Mind-Body-Medicine http//www.mind-body-medicine.com/8)Mind and Body Wellness http//membrane.com/ncata/lynn/9) Carlson, Neil R., Physiology of Behavior. Needham Heights A Pearson Education Company, 2001.