Analgesia for the Bayesian Brain : How Predictive Coding Offers Insights Into the Subjectivity of Pain

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In order to better treat pain, we must understand its architecture and pathways. Many modulatory approaches of pain management strategies are only poorly understood. This review aims to provide a theoretical framework of pain perception and modulation in order to assist in clinical understanding and research of analgesia and anesthesia.

RECENT FINDINGS: Limitations of traditional models for pain have driven the application of new data analysis models. The Bayesian principle of predictive coding has found increasing application in neuroscientific research, providing a promising theoretical background for the principles of consciousness and perception. It can be applied to the subjective perception of pain. Pain perception can be viewed as a continuous hierarchical process of bottom-up sensory inputs colliding with top-down modulations and prior experiences, involving multiple cortical and subcortical hubs of the pain matrix. Predictive coding provides a mathematical model for this interplay.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Current pain and headache reports - 27(2023), 11 vom: 11. Nov., Seite 631-638

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lersch, Friedrich E [VerfasserIn]
Frickmann, Fabienne C S [VerfasserIn]
Urman, Richard D [VerfasserIn]
Burgermeister, Gabriel [VerfasserIn]
Siercks, Kaya [VerfasserIn]
Luedi, Markus M [VerfasserIn]
Straumann, Sven [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Active inference
Analgesia
Anesthesia
Bayes’ theorem
Journal Article
Markov blanket
Pain
Predictive coding
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 16.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11916-023-01122-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359225926