"Perception of Pain"
Max Gomez investigates why some people vary so widely in their resilience to pain: for some, a bad knee is debilitating and for other a similar injury is only a nuisance. "Pain is very complicated," said Houman Danesh, MD, director of integrative pain management at The Mount Sinai Hospital. "It's an input of impulses from around the brain and the body all coalescing together." Sometimes, the same person can experience the same type and magnitude of pain differently as well. "There are many factors that affect pain perception, such as stress, other diseases and drug history," said Vanna Zachariou, MD, associate professor of pharmacology and systems therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
- Houman Danesh, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Rehabilitative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, Director, Division of Integrative Pain Management, The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Vanna Zachariou, MD, Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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