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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Dec 27;0:61–78. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.12.006

Figure 7. Treatment Paradigm – Neural Network-Directed Decreases in Allostatic Psychological Load with Readout Measures (from (Borsook and Kalso, 2013) with permission).

Figure 7

The figure shows containment and normal adaptive processing to various stressors (noted below in the key); these normal responses are balanced and adaptive (adapt to `homeostatic set-point') over time. In chronic pain responses may be exaggerated (out of `homeostatic set-point') or inhibited. In a multidimensional biological process such as chronic pain each of these stressors may affect an individual differently as represented in the `bar-code' noted on the right.