Description:

The Center for Translational Pain Research Presents:

"A social affective neuroscience lens on pain" 
 
Pain is highly comorbid with affective disorders and subject to health disparities in its treatment and assessment. For these reasons, pain researchers may benefit from approaching pain using tools of affective science. In this talk I will address our recent work using tools from social affective neuroscience to address pain and its modulation by psychological factors. I will discuss how pain is shaped by learning, expectations, and social factors such as stereotypes, and demonstrate how computational approaches can isolate neuromodulatory mechanisms by which such modulation comes about.

Lauren Atlas PhD
Investigator
Section on Affective Neuroscience 
Pain National Institutes of Health
NCCIH, NIMH, NIDA