Nicolas Danziger
Neurologist
Author of Vivre sans la douleur ? (2010)
Luis Garcia-Larrea
Neurophysiologist
Director of Research at Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research)
Patrick Mertens
Neurosurgeon
Professor - Neurological Hospital of Lyon
Topics
- Defining pain
- Emotional contagion and empathy
- Identifying pain: graphic tools
- Identifying pain: verbal tools
- Pain, a warning signal?
- Pain: sense and nonsense
- Phantom pain
- Reliving past pain
- Seriousness of the lesion / Intensity of pain
- Surgery for pain
- The pain of soldiers
- The placebo effect
- Underestimating patients' level of pain
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