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Pain Theories

2010· other· en· W4242892334 on OpenAlexaff
Ronald Melzack

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology · 2010
Typeother
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPain Mechanisms and Treatments
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFibromyalgiaNoxious stimulusSensationChronic painAcute painMedicinePsychologyNeuroscienceAnesthesiaStimulationNociceptionPhysical medicine and rehabilitationPhysical therapyReceptorInternal medicine

Abstract

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Abstract The traditional theory of pain, which evolved during the early twentieth century, holds that pain is a specific sensation produced by a direct‐line pain pathway from pain receptors in the body to a pain center in the brain. Research based on this theory focuses on acute pain evoked by noxious stimulation and has investigated physiological mechanisms at every level of the pathway from receptors to cerebral cortex (Dostrovsky & Craig, 2006). Although acute pain due to injury or surgery is now generally well controlled by a variety of drugs, the direct‐line theory of pain has failed to reveal new therapies to control chronic pain such as the neuralgias and fibromyalgia.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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