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The Neurobiology of Pain

Dr. Clifford Woolf describes the mechanisms of normal pain sensation and the mechanisms of pain transmission that result in pathologic pain syndromes. He presents an approach to pain syndromes based on these mechanisms for chronic pain treatment.

Released:

October 2, 2015

Audience:

Physicians, Nurses

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the protective and adaptive role of pain in human biology

  • Describe how nociceptors and transducer proteins generate nociceptive pain

  • Distinguish between nociceptive, inflammatory, neuropathic, and dysfunctional pain

  • Explain peripheral and central sensitization as mechanisms of clinical pain

  • Apply neurobiological principles to understand chronic pain syndromes

Author(s)

Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD

Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and Neurobiology Program | Boston Children’s Hospital

Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology | Harvard Medical School


Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH

Co-Director, OPENPediatrics; Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation; Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine | Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School


David Casavant, MD

Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

Critical Care and Pain Medicine | Boston Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School

Citation

Woolf C, Wolbrink TA, Casavant D. The Neurobiology of Pain. 10/2015. Online video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/3034/the-neurobiology-of-pain.

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