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The why and how of assessing pain and suffering in animals
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The why and how of assessing pain and suffering in animals
Dan Weary
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Part 1: Methods used to draw inferences regarding felt emotions?
• Acute response to noxious stimuli
• Responses with and without targeted drugs
• Motivation and conditioning tests
• Drug discrimination and generalization
Part 2: How do such feelings contribute to the experience of suffering?
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Anand & Craig, 1996
Acute response to noxious stimuli: e.g. heel prick in infants
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Before palpation During palpation
Stojkov et al. 2015. J. Dairy Sci. 98:5352-5361
Acute response to noxious stimuli: e.g. uterine palpation in metritic cows
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Acute response to noxious stimuli: e.g. uterine palpation in metritic cows
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Acute responses to noxious stimuli are intuitively compelling, but:
• Responses may not be pain specific
• Both response and lack of response can be difficult to interpret
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Part 1: Procedures used to draw inferences regarding felt emotions?
• Acute response to noxious stimuli
• Responses with and without targeted drugs
• Motivation and conditioning tests
• Drug discrimination and generalization
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Pain control: e.g. Intra-operative pain
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Faulkner and Weary 2000. J. Dairy Sci. 83:2037-2041
Pain control: e.g. post-operative pain
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Acute responses to noxious stimuli are intuitively compelling, but:
• Responses may not be pain specific
• Both response and lack of response can be difficult to interpret
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Part 1: Procedures used to draw inferences regarding felt emotions?
• Acute response to noxious stimuli
• Responses with and without targeted drugs
• Motivation and conditioning tests
• Drug discrimination and generalization
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Injection method:
Approach-avoidance testing
Ede et al., 2018. Sci. Reports 8:9443
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Approach-avoidance testing
Ede et al., 2018. Sci. Reports 8:9443
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Motivational tests provide pre-defined response measures with high consistency, but:
• Require inferences about motivation to access reward
• Motivation may vary with type of reward
• Some tests rely on an acute response (e.g. withdraw/escape)
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Conditioned place aversion
Ede et al., in prep.
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Conditioned place aversion
Ede et al., in prep.
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Part 1: Procedures used to draw inferences regarding felt emotions?
• Acute response to noxious stimuli
• Responses with and without targeted drugs
• Motivation and conditioning tests
• Drug discrimination and generalization
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Gauvin & Holloway, 1991. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 39: 521-523.
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Design features
Drug discrimination and generalization
Motivational testing
Analgesics and controls
Response to noxious stimuli
Response measures
Functional, specific, consistent
Function unclear, non-specific, variable
Inferences regarding felt affect?
Weary et al., 2017. Advances in the Study of Behavior 49:27-48
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Part 1: Procedures used to draw inferences regarding felt emotions?
Part 2: How do such feelings contribute to the experience of suffering?
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Usage in the medical literature
concurrent negative affects:
The patient required “small doses of codeine” for pain when she thought it was due to sciatica, but much higher doses were required when she was diagnosed with cancer.
Cassell, 1982
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Usage in the medical literature
concurrent negative affects:
“In the month between an irregular chest X ray and results of the biopsy, I enjoyed very good health in the presence of serious illness… this turned that month into a controlled experiment in pure suffering.”
Frank, 2001, p. 354
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Usage in the medical literature
concurrent negative affects:
“The tendonitis caused extraordinary pain … but I knew what was happening and had reasonable assurance that the acute phase would not last long… So here is the reverse experiment: pain with more annoyance than suffering.”
Frank, 2001, p. 354
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Usage in the medical literature
Mood state:
Low mood
Reduced abilityto perform highly motivated tasks
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Usage in the medical literature
Anhedonia:
Reduced motivation to perform previously rewarding tasks
Low mood
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Usage in the medical literature
Loss of control:
“Suffering can start with anguish over the possibility that if the symptom continues, the patient will be overwhelmed or lose control”
Cassell, 1999, p. 531
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Applying this understanding to animals?
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concurrent negative affects:
e.g. pain + fear
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anhedonia:
Evidence of anhedonia:
• reduced appetite
• reduced grooming
• reduced anticipatory behaviours
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Assessing mood:
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Training task
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Cognitive Bias Task
ambiguous ambiguous ambiguous
Do calves approach these ambiguous screens?
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Neave et al., 2013. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80556
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Cognitive bias after disbudding
Neave et al., 2013. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80556
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Lecorps et al., in prep.
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Lecorps et al., in prep.
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Control:
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Pain is more likely to contribute to suffering when combined with:• Fear• Lack of control
Suffering might be identified by:• Reduced performance of motivated
behaviours• Other indicators of low mood
Suffering summary
Weary, 2014. Dilemmas in Animal Welfare, CABI, pp. 188-202.
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