Description
Presenter: Dr. Patrick Finan
Overview.
This talk will review the evidence supporting the notion that sleep and pain are bidrectionally related, and review the foundation for developing interventions that aim to treat sleep as a means of reducing pain. The Sleep-Reward-Pain theoretical model will then be introduced to review the evidence that has identified positive emotions and reward processing as mechanisms and possible novel intervention targets of the association of sleep and pain.
Objectives.
- Demonstrate understanding of how sleep and pain are related.
- Identify mechanisms that underly the association of sleep and pain.
- Explain treatment options for patients with comorbid chronic pain and insomnia.
About the Presenters.
Patrick H. Finan, Ph.D. is the Harold Carron Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The Finan Lab focuses broadly on explicating psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of chronic pain. Within that broad domain, Dr. Finan’s team specifically seeks to identify how emotions and pain interact, who evidences characteristics of emotion-related risk and resilience, and when changes in emotions facilitate or inhibit the experience of pain. They employ intensive longitudinal methods to assess behavioral and objective correlates of pain in real time (e.g., sleep; emotions; opioid use; cannabis use), and utilize laboratory-based experimental methods to understand factors influencing pain perception (e.g., sleep deprivation; quantitative sensory testing; fMRI; pharmacological challenge). Additionally, they develop and test novel therapeutic interventions that engage affect- and sleep-related mechanisms to ameliorate pain and mitigate problematic opioid use. Dr. Finan is currently leading clinical trials examining the effects of Savoring Meditation and psilocybin administration on pain and emotion-related outcomes among patients with chronic pain.
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