The Influences and Mechanisms of Pain on Mental Processes
疼痛对心理的影响及其机制

Pain has been identified to impact mental processes,like cognition,emotion,etc.Pain may disturb individual's selective or persistent attention,and even damage one's memory function.Long-term pain can also cause negative emotions,such as anxiety and depression.Two main theories of pain mechanism,the Gate Control Theory and the Neuromatrix Theory,explained the interaction between pain and mental processes at spinal cord level and at brain level respectively.The theories which explained coding mechanisms of pa...