facing the experience of pain a neuropsychological面对痛苦的神经心理_精品.pdf

JID:PLREV AID:448 /REV [m3SC+; v 1.182; Prn:6/01/2014; 13:16] P.1 (1-13) Available online at ScienceDirect Physics of Life Reviews ••• (••••) •••–••• /locate/plrev Review Facing the experience of pain: A neuropsychological perspective Franco Fabbro a,b,∗ , Cristiano Crescentini a,c a Department of Human Sciences, University of Udine, Via Margreth 3, 33100, Udine, Italy b Perceptual Robotics (PERCRO) Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy c Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy Received 13 December 2013; accepted 17 December 2013 Communicated by L. Perlovsky Abstract Pain is an experience that none of us would like to have but that each one of us is destined to experience in our lives. Despite its pervasiveness, the experience of pain remains problematic and complex in its depth. Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves nociception as well as emotional and cognitive aspects that can modulate its perception. Following a brief discussion of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying pain, the purpose of this review is to discuss the main psychological, neuropsychological, cultural, and existential aspects which are the basis of diverse forms of pain, like the pain of separation from caregivers or from ourselves (e.g., connected to the thought of our death), the suffering t