Pain Research Center, U of Utah

Pain and Negative Emotion: Towards an Interdisciplinary Synthesis An Official Satellite Meeting for the 10th International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) World Congress on Pain August 11-13, 2002 Solitude Ski Resort Salt Lake City, Utah
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Background: A new understanding of pain has emerged from recent progress in the neurophysiology of pain, functional brain imaging studies of persons experiencing pain, and advances in theory. Pain has an affective dimension as well a sensory aspect. Its affective dimension stems from the neural substrates for emotion, and the natural expression of pain is predominantly emotional. It is becoming increasingly clear that pain and emotional disturbance are interdependent problems and that the clinical solution to one sometimes requires the assessment and treatment of the other. The field of emotion research has made important recent advances in elucidating central mechanisms for the production and perception of emotions. However, salient findings from emotion research have had little or no influence on pain research because of limited communication between these fields. Conversely, pain research is potentially of great importance to the study of emotion because clinical patients with pain typically exhibit many affective problems, but few emotion researchers realize that pain is a viable domain for the study of emotion. Increased and sustained communication between these separate domains of inquiry should prove mutually beneficial. This satellite meeting will bring together basic science and clinical researchers from the pain and emotion fields. Participants will present state-of-the-art reports that cultivate interdisciplinary collaborations and foster translational interactions between researchers and clinicians. The meeting will highlight several themes that cut across the two fields. Invited speakers will deliver their presentations in 30 minutes, leaving ample time for interactive discussion. Top
Educational Objectives: After attending this satellite meeting, participants will: understand the physiological basis of emotion associated with pain; be able to discuss objective and subjective methods for quantifying emotion; appreciate the importance of affective factors in clinical pain management; and better understand how to manage the affective dimension of pain. Top
Location: The meeting will take place at Solitude Ski Resort, a scenic mountain resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon, a short distance from Salt Lake City. Top
Program Schedule:	August 11	August 12	August 13
August 11 Keynote Evening Presentation The Metaphysics of Research in Pain and Emotion: Enduring Category Errors in Neurobiology Walter J. Freeman, M.D. Back Top August 12 Basic Science Perspectives on Pain and Emotion A) Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Pain and Emotion 1) The Neurobiology of Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Pain: An Overview Donald D. Price, Ph.D. 2) The Neural Bases of Emotion: An Overview Jean-Marc Fellous, Ph.D. 3) Neuropsychology of Emotion Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D. B) Pain and Emotion: Perspectives from Functional Brain Imaging Studies 4) Neural Substrates of the Experience and Anticipation of Pain and Aversive Emotion Richard Lane, M.D. Ph.D. 5) Neurophenomenology of Pain and Pain Modulation Pierre Rainville, Ph.D. C) Psychophysiology of Pain and Negative Emotion 6) Multivariate Psychophysiology of the Defense Response: A Latent Variable Approach C. Richard Chapman, Ph.D. 7) Psychophysiology of Threat Processing Wolfgang Miltner, Ph.D. D) Developmental Perspectives on Pain and Emotion 8) Awareness of Injury, Threat, and Pain in Children Patricia McGrath, Ph.D. 9) Development of Self and Emotion in Early Infancy Alan Fogel, Ph.D. Back Top August 13 Clinical Perspectives on the Affective Dimension of Pain E) Somatic Awareness, Self, and Social Interaction 10) The Role of Body in Somatic Awareness: An Enactive Constructivist Approach to Pain Yoshio Nakamura, Ph.D. 11) Neurobiology of Social Cognition Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D. F) Pain and Affective Disorders in Clinical Patients 12) Negative Emotion and Mood in Patients with Chronic Pain Akiko Okifuji, Ph.D. 13) Pain Pharmacotherapy: Pharmacology and Psychopharmacology Arthur Lipman, Ph.D. G) Pain and Affective Disorder: Independent or Interdependent? 14) Managing Affective Disorders in Chronic Pain Mark Sullivan, M.D. Ph.D. 15) Affective Disturbance and Pain at End of Life Sharon Weinstein, M.D. H) Towards an Interdisciplinary Synthesis 16) Natural Selection and the Regulation of Aversive Emotions Randolph M. Nesse, M.D. 17) The Intentional Nature of Consciousness: Pain and Emotion Walter J. Freeman, M.D. Back Top
Registration: Download the registration form as a pdf file for printing and return by mail or fax. Call 1-801-585-7690 for more information. (click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader for pdf format) Top
We thank the following sponsors for their generous contributions: Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. Janssen Pharmaceutica Merck & Co., Inc. Purdue Pharma L.P. Faulding Laboratories Top