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Stjernbrandt A, Pettersson H, Wahlström J, Rödin I, Nilsson T, Burström L. Hand cold stress testing among Arctic open-pit miners: a clinical study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS 2024:1-8. [PMID: 39185579 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2024.2383051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/27/2024]
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Objectives. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of individual characteristics (sex, age, body mass index [BMI] and smoking habits) on the tolerance time, pain ratings and rewarming time of hand cold stress testing (CST). Methods. We included 153 subjects (63% men) working in a Swedish open-pit mine (participation rate 41%). The right hand was immersed in 3 °C circulating water for up to 45 s. Pain ratings were registered every fifth second using a visual analog scale. Results. The tolerance time (mean ± standard deviation) was 35 ± 12 s for men and 29 ± 14 s for women (p = 0.007). The youngest age group (18-29 years) had the longest tolerance time, while the oldest group (54-65 years) had the shortest (p = 0.005). Women had significantly higher pain ratings than men after 5, 10 and 25 s. The group with the highest BMI had the shortest rewarming time (p < 0.001). Conclusions. Age and sex influenced the tolerance time of hand CST, while only sex affected the pain ratings and BMI the rewarming time. When performing CST in future studies, these parameters should be considered.
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- Albin Stjernbrandt
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
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Lakhsassi L, Borg C, de Jong PJ. The Influence of Subjective Sexual Arousal and Disgust on Pain. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH 2024; 61:671-681. [PMID: 37651743 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2252422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Current models propose that inhibited sexual arousal is a key component in maintaining sexual pain in women with Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder. It thus follows that enhancing sexual arousal may be an effective strategy to modulate pain, but this effect has not been successfully demonstrated with women, although it has been successful with men. This study built on previous works and examined if the pain-killing effect of sexual arousal might have been undermined by concurrently-elicited disgust. We tested whether women experience disgust as well as sexual arousal when viewing sex stimuli, and whether disgust has an exacerbating effect on pain. Female participants (N = 164) were randomly distributed to watch a porn, disgust, or neutral train-ride film. A cold pressor test (CPT) was utilized to induce pain at the same time that participants viewed their respective film. Pain was indexed by the duration that participants kept their hand in the cold water, and by self-reported pain intensity at the time they quit the CPT. The results showed no differences in pain across conditions. The sex stimulus elicited substantial disgust as well as sexual arousal, and there was a negative correlation between the two emotions. Disgust was not found to increase pain compared to both the neutral and sex conditions. Thus, the findings provide no support for a pain-modulatory effect of subjective sexual arousal on pain in women. This might, however, be due to the sex stimulus having elicited an ambivalent state between an appetitive and aversive emotion concurrently.
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- Lara Lakhsassi
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen
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You B, Wen H, Jackson T. Investigating mortality salience as a potential causal influence and moderator of responses to laboratory pain. PeerJ 2024; 12:e17204. [PMID: 38584938 PMCID: PMC10998629 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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Background Because pain can have profound ramifications for quality of life and daily functioning, understanding nuances in the interplay of psychosocial experiences with pain perception is vital for effective pain management. In separate lines of research, pain resilience and mortality salience have emerged as potentially important psychological correlates of reduced pain severity and increased tolerance of pain. However, to date, there has been a paucity of research examining potentially interactive effects of these factors on pain perception. To address this gap, the present experiment investigated mortality salience as a causal influence on tolerance of laboratory pain and a moderator of associations between pain resilience and pain tolerance within a Chinese sample. Methods Participants were healthy young Chinese adults (86 women, 84 men) who first completed a brief initial cold pressor test (CPT) followed by measures of demographics and pain resilience. Subsequently, participants randomly assigned to a mortality salience (MS) condition completed two open-ended essay questions in which they wrote about their death as well as a death anxiety scale while those randomly assigned to a control condition completed analogous tasks about watching television. Finally, all participants engaged in a delay task and a second CPT designed to measure post-manipulation pain tolerance and subjective pain intensity levels. Results MS condition cohorts showed greater pain tolerance than controls on the post-manipulation CPT, though pain intensity levels did not differ between groups. Moderator analyses indicated that the relationship between the behavior perseverance facet of pain resilience and pain tolerance was significantly stronger among MS condition participants than controls. Conclusions This experiment is the first to document potential causal effects of MS on pain tolerance and Ms as a moderator of the association between self-reported behavior perseverance and behavioral pain tolerance. Findings provide foundations for extensions within clinical pain samples.
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- Beibei You
- School of Nursing, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Taipa, China
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Trübenbacher L, Lindenberg N, Graf BM, Backmund M, Unglaub W, Lassen CL. Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Threshold is No Suitable Marker for Diagnosing Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia. J Pain Res 2024; 17:1067-1076. [PMID: 38505502 PMCID: PMC10948325 DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s421841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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Background Opioid induced hyperalgesia (OIH) describes a state of altered pain sensation due to opioid exposure. It often occurs among persons with opioid use disorder receiving substitution therapy. Methods The purpose of this study was to find out, whether OIH diagnosis could be facilitated by an objective pain indicating marker: the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex (NFR). Forty persons with opioid use disorder, 20 of them maintained on methadone and 20 treated with buprenorphine, as well as a control group of 20 opioid-free subjects, were examined. It was aimed to find out whether and in which way these opioid agonists alter reflex threshold (NFR-T). A cold-pressor test was performed to investigate the prevalence of OIH. Furthermore, electrical stimulation and electromyography analyzation were used for NFR-T measurement. Subjective pain ratings were evaluated with a numeric rating scale. Results Significantly increased sensitivity to cold pressor pain was found in both maintenance groups when compared to their opioid-free counterparts (p < 0.001). Neither methadone nor buprenorphine showed any effect on NFR-T. This might be explained by the reflex approaching at the wrong location in the central nervous system. Consequently, NFR-T is not a suitable marker for diagnosing OIH. Conclusion Although methadone and buprenorphine have been proven to cause OIH, no effect on NFR-T was observed. A statistically significant effect could have been observed with a larger number of participants. Further research, with special focus on patients' adjuvant medication, should be conducted in the future, to facilitate diagnosis of OIH and provide appropriate pain management for maintenance patients.
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- Luisa Trübenbacher
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, 93053, Germany
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, 93053, Germany
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, 93053, Germany
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- “Praxiszentrum im Tal”, Tal 9, 80331, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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- “medbo” District Hospital, Universitätsstraße 84, 93053, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, 93053, Germany
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Peier F, Mouthon M, De Pretto M, Chabwine JN. Response to experimental cold-induced pain discloses a resistant category among endurance athletes, with a distinct profile of pain-related behavior and GABAergic EEG markers: a case-control preliminary study. Front Neurosci 2024; 17:1287233. [PMID: 38287989 PMCID: PMC10822956 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1287233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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Pain is a major public health problem worldwide, with a high rate of treatment failure. Among promising non-pharmacological therapies, physical exercise is an attractive, cheap, accessible and innocuous method; beyond other health benefits. However, its highly variable therapeutic effect and incompletely understood underlying mechanisms (plausibly involving the GABAergic neurotransmission) require further research. This case-control study aimed to investigate the impact of long-lasting intensive endurance sport practice (≥7 h/week for the last 6 months at the time of the experiment) on the response to experimental cold-induced pain (as a suitable chronic pain model), assuming that highly trained individual would better resist to pain, develop advantageous pain-copying strategies and enhance their GABAergic signaling. For this purpose, clinical pain-related data, response to a cold-pressor test and high-density EEG high (Hβ) and low beta (Lβ) oscillations were documented. Among 27 athletes and 27 age-adjusted non-trained controls (right-handed males), a category of highly pain-resistant participants (mostly athletes, 48.1%) was identified, displaying lower fear of pain, compared to non-resistant non-athletes. Furthermore, they tolerated longer cold-water immersion and perceived lower maximal sensory pain. However, while having similar Hβ and Lβ powers at baseline, they exhibited a reduction between cold and pain perceptions and between pain threshold and tolerance (respectively -60% and - 6.6%; -179.5% and - 5.9%; normalized differences), in contrast to the increase noticed in non-resistant non-athletes (+21% and + 14%; +23.3% and + 13.6% respectively). Our results suggest a beneficial effect of long-lasting physical exercise on resistance to pain and pain-related behaviors, and a modification in brain GABAergic signaling. In light of the current knowledge, we propose that the GABAergic neurotransmission could display multifaceted changes to be differently interpreted, depending on the training profile and on the homeostatic setting (e.g., in pain-free versus chronic pain conditions). Despite limitations related to the sample size and to absence of direct observations under acute physical exercise, this precursory study brings into light the unique profile of resistant individuals (probably favored by training) allowing highly informative observation on physical exercise-induced analgesia and paving the way for future clinical translation. Further characterizing pain-resistant individuals would open avenues for a targeted and physiologically informed pain management.
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- Franziska Peier
- Laboratory for Neurorehabilitation Science, Medicine Section, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neurorehabilitation Science, Medicine Section, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neurorehabilitation Science, Medicine Section, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neurorehabilitation Science, Medicine Section, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Neurology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Fribourg-Cantonal Hospital, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Rotevatn EØ, Engan M, Stensaker E, Hufthammer KO, Rygh LJ. Measuring pain intensity through physical interaction in an experimental model of cold-induced pain: A method comparison study. Scand J Pain 2024; 24:sjpain-2024-0011. [PMID: 38881392 DOI: 10.1515/sjpain-2024-0011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Assessment of pain is challenging given its subjective nature. Standard pain assessment tools have limitations. We aimed to compare the verbal numeric rating scale (NRS) and Grasp, a novel handheld electronic device that reports pain by squeezing. METHODS To compare Grasp and NRS, healthy adult volunteers were invited to undergo two subsequent standardised tests of cold-triggered pain using a cold pressor test (CPT) at a temperature of 3°C. Pain intensity was in a randomised manner reported by NRS (scale 0-10) or by squeezing Grasp (0-3 V) during the two CPTs. A third CPT was performed 1 to 14 days later where subjects reported pain by Grasp a second time in order to study the association of repeated Grasp measurements. Acceptable association was a priori considered as mean Kendall's τ-b coefficient (τ-b) ≥ 0.7. The subjects reported their experience of using Grasp in a purpose-made questionnaire. RESULTS In total, 102 subjects were included, and 96 subjects (56 females) completed all three tests. The association of pain intensity reported by Grasp and NRS was moderate with a mean τ-b of 0.53 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.47-0.58). The association between the repeated Grasp measurements was weak with a mean τ-b of 0.43 (95% CI 0.37-0.48). Most subjects reported that Grasp was intuitive and easy to use. CONCLUSIONS Pain intensity reported by squeezing Grasp did not show acceptable association with pain intensity reported by NRS during CPTs. The association between pain intensity reported by Grasp during two CPTs on separate days was weak. Further improvements of the Grasp ball are needed before use in clinical settings.
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- Elisabeth Ørskov Rotevatn
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Postboks 1400, 5021, Bergen, Norway
- Children and Youth Clinic, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Children and Youth Clinic, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Postboks 1400, 5021, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Postboks 1400, 5021, Bergen, Norway
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Bagnis A, Todorov A, Altizio I, Colonnello V, Fanti S, Russo PM, Mattarozzi K. Familiarity From Facial Appearance Leads to Hypoalgesia. THE JOURNAL OF PAIN 2023; 24:2040-2051. [PMID: 37356606 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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Social context has been shown to influence pain perception. This study aimed to broaden this literature by investigating whether relevant social stimuli, such as faces with different levels of intrinsic (based on physical resemblance to known individuals) and episodic (acquired through a previous experience) familiarity, may lead to hypoalgesia. We hypothesized that familiarity, whether intrinsic or acquired through experience, would increase pain threshold and decrease pain intensity. Sixty-seven participants underwent pain induction (the cold pressor test) viewing previously seen faces (Episodic Group) or new faces (Non-episodic Group) that differed in the level of intrinsic familiarity (high vs low). Pain threshold was measured in seconds, while pain intensity was measured on a rating scale of 0 to 10. The results did not show an effect of episodic familiarity. However, compared to low, high intrinsic familiar faces had an attenuating effect on pain intensity, even after controlling for pain expectation. These results suggest that physical features conveying a higher feeling of familiarity induce a top-down hypoalgesic modulation, in line with the idea that familiarity may signal safety and that the presence of familiar others reduce perceived threat-related distress. This study provides further evidence on the social modulation of pain and contributes to the literature on first impressions' influence on social behavior. PERSPECTIVE: Consistent with the idea that familiar others signal safety and reduce the sense of threat, facial features conveying familiarity induce a top-down hypoalgesic modulation. This knowledge may contribute to understanding differences in pain perception in experimental and clinical contexts.
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- Arianna Bagnis
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Hossein S, Cooper JA, DeVries BAM, Nuutinen MR, Hahn EC, Kragel PA, Treadway MT. Effects of acute stress and depression on functional connectivity between prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. Mol Psychiatry 2023; 28:4602-4612. [PMID: 37076616 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-023-02056-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
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Stress is known to be a significant risk factor for the development of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), yet the neural mechanisms that underlie this risk are poorly understood. Prior work has heavily implicated the corticolimbic system in the pathophysiology of MDD. In particular, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala play a central role in regulating the response to stress, with dorsal PFC and ventral PFC exhibiting reciprocal excitatory and inhibitory influences on amygdala subregions. However, it remains unclear how best to disentangle the impact of stress from the impact of current MDD symptoms on this system. Here, we examined stress-induced changes in resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) within an a priori corticolimbic network in MDD patients and healthy controls (total n = 80) before and after an acute stressor or a "no stress" control condition. Using graph theoretic analysis, we found that connectivity between basolateral amygdala and dorsal prefrontal nodes of the corticolimbic network had a negative association with individual differences in chronic perceived stress at baseline. Following the acute stressor, healthy individuals showed a reduction of the amygdala node strength, while MDD patients exhibited little change. Finally, dorsal PFC-particularly dorsomedial PFC- connectivity to the basolateral amygdala was associated with the strength of the basolateral amygdala responses to loss feedback during a reinforcement learning task. These findings highlight attenuated connectivity between basolateral amygdala and prefrontal cortex in patients with MDD. In healthy individuals, acute stress exposure was found to push the corticolimbic network to a "stress-phenotype" that may be chronically present in patients with current depression and high levels of perceived stress. In sum, these results help to identify circuit mechanisms underlying the effects of acute stress and their role in mood disorders.
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- Shabnam Hossein
- Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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van Dick R, Frenzel SB, Erkens VA, Häusser JA, Haslam SA, Mojzisch A, Steffens NK, Junker NM. Reduced loneliness mediates the effects of multiple group identifications on well-being. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023; 62:1693-1714. [PMID: 37166233 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Membership of multiple groups and identification with those groups have been found to be positively related to individuals' health and well-being. The present research sought to replicate this finding in two large, representative samples. Moreover, we sought to extend previous work by shedding light on the mechanisms mediating the effects of multiple group membership on positive health outcomes. Specifically, we proposed that the links between multiple group membership and positive health outcomes are mediated by reduced feelings of loneliness. In Study 1, a two-wave survey of a German population, participants (N = 989) were asked about their identification with family, friends, neighbourhood, their country and humanity and 4 weeks later about feelings of loneliness, physical health and stress. As hypothesized, multiple identifications predicted lower stress. They were also associated with a marginal reduction in physical symptoms of poor health. Both relationships were mediated by the absence of loneliness. In Study 2, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of German participants (N = 1635), which also included a sixth target of identification (Europe). Results replicated findings from Study 1 and also found similar relations associated with smaller (family, friends and neighbourhood) versus larger (country, Europe and Humanity) foci of identification.
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- Rolf van Dick
- Department of Social Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Social Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Social Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Social Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Psychology Department, University Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Durgin CJ, Huhn AS, Bergeria CL, Finan PH, Campbell CM, Antoine DG, Dunn KE. Within subject, double blind, examination of opioid sensitivity in participant-reported, observed, physiologic, and analgesic outcomes. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE REPORTS 2023; 8:100188. [PMID: 37731966 PMCID: PMC10507188 DOI: 10.1016/j.dadr.2023.100188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
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Background Inter-individual differences in opioid sensitivity may underlie different opioid risk profiles but have often been researched in persons who have current or past opioid use disorder or physical dependence. This study examined how opioid sensitivity manifests across various assessments of opioid effects in a primarily opioid-naïve population. Procedures Data were harmonized from two within-subject, double-blind trials wherein healthy participants (N = 123) received placebo and 4 mg oral hydromorphone. Demographics, self-report ratings, observer ratings, physiological, and cold pressor measures were collected. Participants were categorized as being responsive or nonresponsive to the opioid dose tested and compared using mixed-models, Pearson product correlations, and paired t-tests. Findings Participants were 49.6% female, mean 33.0 (SD=9.3) years old, and 44.7% Black/African American and 41.5% White, with 89.4% reporting no prior exposure to opioids. Within-subject sensitivity to opioids varied depending on the measure. One in five participants did not respond subjectively to the 4 mg hydromorphone dose based on their "Drug Effects" rating. Persons who were responsive showed more evidence of drug-dependent effects than did persons who were not responsive on ratings of Bad Effects (p= .03), feeling High (p= .01), Nausea (p= .03), pupil diameter (p< 0.01), and on the circular lights task (p< 0.001). Conclusions This study provides initial evidence that the experience of opioids may be domain specific. Data suggest potentially clinically meaningful differences exist regarding opioid response patterns, evident following one dose among opioid inexperienced individuals.
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- Caitlyn J. Durgin
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Dr, Baltimore MD 21224, USA
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Paredes Sanchez J, Titmus M, Lawson-Smith H, Di Pietro F. Tactile acuity improves during acute experimental pain of the limb. Pain Rep 2023; 8:e1091. [PMID: 38225958 PMCID: PMC10789456 DOI: 10.1097/pr9.0000000000001091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Introduction Chronic pain is associated with poor tactile acuity, commonly measured with the 2-point discrimination (TPD) test. Although poor tactile acuity across chronic pain conditions is well established, less is known in acute pain. Objective Recent conflicting findings in experimentally induced neck and back pain led us to conduct a TPD investigation in experimentally induced limb pain. We hypothesised altered TPD during experimental upper limb pain, but we did not speculate on the direction of the change. Methods Thirty healthy subjects immersed their dominant hand in a circulating cold-water bath at 7°C (cold pressor test [CPT]). Two-point discrimination was measured at baseline (pre-CPT), during pain (during-CPT), and after withdrawal from the water (post-CPT) in 3 different sites: (1) the dominant forearm, (2) dominant arm and (3) contralateral forearm. Results Repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect of time (F(2,56) = 4.45, P = 0.02, η p 2 = 0.14) on TPD; in all 3 sites, TPD values decreased (ie, tactile acuity improved) during pain. Interestingly, the contralateral forearm followed a similar pattern to the dominant (ie, painful) forearm, and furthermore was the only site that exhibited any correlation with pain, albeit in an intriguing direction (r = 0.57, P = 0.001), ie, the greater the pain the worse the tactile acuity. Conclusion The improvements in tactile acuity during experimentally induced limb pain may reflect a protective response. The changes in the corresponding site in the contralateral limb may reflect a protective spinal cross talk. Such a response, together with the interesting relationship between tactile acuity and pain, warrant further inquiry.
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- Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia
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- Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin Health and Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI), Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia
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Konstantinou P, Trigeorgi A, Georgiou C, Michaelides M, Gloster AT, Georgiou E, Panayiotou G, Karekla M. Functional versus dysfunctional coping with physical pain: An experimental comparison of acceptance vs. avoidance coping. Behav Res Ther 2023; 167:104339. [PMID: 37329864 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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This study compared acceptance vs. avoidance coping with acute physical pain, in a pain-induction experiment and examined both between and within-group differences, multi-methodically and multi-dimensionally using behavioral, physiological and self-report measures. The sample consisted of 88 University students (76.1% females; Mage = 21.33 years). Participants were randomly assigned to four instructed groups and participated twice in the Cold Pressor Task: (a) Acceptance followed by avoidance; (b) Avoidance followed by acceptance; (c) No instructions (control) followed by acceptance, and (d) No instructions (control) followed by avoidance. All analyses were conducted using repeated-measures ANOVAs. Randomized techniques analyses showed that participants receiving no instructions followed by acceptance reported significantly greater changes in physiological and behavioral measures across time. Low adherence to acceptance instructions was found, especially during the first phase. Exploratory analyses on actual techniques used (as opposed to taught technique) showed that participants using avoidance followed by acceptance exhibited significantly greater changes in physiological and behavioral measures across time. No significant differences were found for the self-report of negative affect outcome. Overall, our findings provide support to ACT theory, as participants might have to use firstly ineffective coping to understand what works best to cope with pain. This is the first study examining acceptance vs. avoidance coping both between and within individuals in physical pain, multi-methodically and multi-dimensionally.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Adamczyk WM, Katra M, Szikszay TM, Peugh J, King CD, Luedtke K, Coghill RC. Spatial Tuning in Nociceptive Processing Is Driven by Attention. THE JOURNAL OF PAIN 2023; 24:1116-1125. [PMID: 36965648 PMCID: PMC10330125 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023]
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When the source of nociception expands across a body area, the experience of pain increases due to the spatial integration of nociceptive information. This well-established effect is called spatial summation of pain (SSp) and has been the subject of multiple investigations. Here, we used cold-induced SSp to investigate the effect of attention on the spatial tuning of nociceptive processing. Forty pain-free volunteers (N = 40, 20 females) participated in this experiment. They took part in an SSp paradigm based on three hand immersions into cold water (5°C): Participants either immersed the radial segment ("a"), ulnar segment ("b") or both hand segments ("a+b") and provided overall pain ratings. In some trials based on "a+b" immersions, they were also asked to provide divided (ie, first pain in "a" then in "b"; or reversed) and directed attention ratings (ie, pain only in "a" or "b"). Results confirmed a clear SSp effect in which reported pain during immersions of "a" or "b" was less intense than pain during immersions of "a+b" (P < .001). Data also confirmed that spatial tuning was altered. SSp was abolished when participants provided two ratings in a divided fashion (P < .001). Furthermore, pain was significantly lower when attention was directed only to one segment ("a" OR "b") during "a+b" immersion (P < .001). We conclude that spatial tuning is dynamically driven by attention as reflected in abolished SSp. Directed attention was sufficient to focus spatial tuning and abolish SSp. Results support the role of cognitive processes such as attention in spatial tuning. PERSPECTIVE: This article presents experimental investigation of spatial tuning in pain and offers mechanistic insights of contiguous spatial summation of pain in healthy volunteers. Depending on how pain is evaluated in terms of attentional derivative (overall pain, directed, divided attention) the pain is reduced and spatial summation abolished.
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- Waclaw M Adamczyk
- Pediatric Pain Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio; Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland.
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- Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Lübeck (P.E.R.L.), Institute of Health Sciences, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Pediatric Pain Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland; Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Lübeck (P.E.R.L.), Institute of Health Sciences, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Pediatric Pain Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Fleischhauer V, Bruhn J, Rasche S, Zaunseder S. Photoplethysmography upon cold stress-impact of measurement site and acquisition mode. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1127624. [PMID: 37324389 PMCID: PMC10267461 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1127624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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Photoplethysmography (PPG) allows various statements about the physiological state. It supports multiple recording setups, i.e., application to various body sites and different acquisition modes, rendering the technique a versatile tool for various situations. Owing to anatomical, physiological and metrological factors, PPG signals differ with the actual setup. Research on such differences can deepen the understanding of prevailing physiological mechanisms and path the way towards improved or novel methods for PPG analysis. The presented work systematically investigates the impact of the cold pressor test (CPT), i.e., a painful stimulus, on the morphology of PPG signals considering different recording setups. Our investigation compares contact PPG recorded at the finger, contact PPG recorded at the earlobe and imaging PPG (iPPG), i.e., non-contact PPG, recorded at the face. The study bases on own experimental data from 39 healthy volunteers. We derived for each recording setup four common morphological PPG features from three intervals around CPT. For the same intervals, we derived blood pressure and heart rate as reference. To assess differences between the intervals, we used repeated measures ANOVA together with paired t-tests for each feature and we calculated Hedges' g to quantify effect sizes. Our analyses show a distinct impact of CPT. As expected, blood pressure shows a highly significant and persistent increase. Independently of the recording setup, all PPG features show significant changes upon CPT as well. However, there are marked differences between recording setups. Effect sizes generally differ with the finger PPG showing the strongest response. Moreover, one feature (pulse width at half amplitude) shows an inverse behavior in finger PPG and head PPG (earlobe PPG and iPPG). In addition, iPPG features behave partially different from contact PPG features as they tend to return to baseline values while contact PPG features remain altered. Our findings underline the importance of recording setup and physiological as well as metrological differences that relate to the setups. The actual setup must be considered in order to properly interpret features and use PPG. The existence of differences between recording setups and a deepened knowledge on such differences might open up novel diagnostic methods in the future.
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- Vincent Fleischhauer
- Laboratory for Advanced Measurements and Biomedical Data Analysis, Faculty of Information Technology, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Laboratory for Advanced Measurements and Biomedical Data Analysis, Faculty of Information Technology, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory for Advanced Measurements and Biomedical Data Analysis, Faculty of Information Technology, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
- Professorship for Diagnostic Sensing, Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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Ommerborn MA, Özbek A, Grunwald M, Depprich RA, Walentek NP, Franken M, Schäfer R. Effects on general pain perception and dental pulp sensibility in probable sleep bruxism subjects by experimentally induced pain in a pilot study. Sci Rep 2023; 13:5836. [PMID: 37037840 PMCID: PMC10086053 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33019-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023] Open
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In this pilot study, the general pain perception and the dental pulp sensibility of probable sleep bruxism (SB) subjects were compared with that of non-SB subjects. The cold pressor test (CPT), electric pulp test (EPT), and thermal pulp test with CO2 snow were executed by one trained dentist (blind to SB diagnosis). A one-factorial multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) with SB diagnosis as independent variable and standardized measures regarding pain perception and evaluation was performed. One-hundred-and-five participants (53 SB and 52 non-SB subjects) were included. The one-factorial MANOVA revealed a significant difference between SB and non-SB subjects (p = 0.01) concerning pain perception variables. Post-hoc univariate analyses of variance (ANOVA) showed statistically significant lower general pain tolerance (p = 0.02), higher general subjective sensibility of the teeth (p < 0.01), and a statistical trend for higher subjective dental pain intensity (p = 0.07) in SB subjects. In most of the standardized variables, probable SB subjects seem to react and feel similar to non-SB subjects. However, as probable SB subjects subjectively perceive their teeth to be more sensitive and tend to rate their subjective dental pain intensity more intensely after CO2 testing, data might point to a somatosensory amplification.
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- Michelle Alicia Ommerborn
- Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology, and Endodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology, and Endodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology, and Endodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Cranio- and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology, and Endodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Operative Dentistry, Periodontology, and Endodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Clinical Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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“Wait and See”: Effects of Matching Visual Stimulation on Impulsive Behavior during an Adaptation of Flora et al.’s (1992) Choice Task. PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s40732-023-00536-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Yoo H, Cho Y, Cho S. Does past/current pain change pain experience? Comparing self-reports and pupillary responses. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1094903. [PMID: 36874838 PMCID: PMC9982106 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1094903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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Introduction For decades, a substantial body of research has confirmed the subjective nature of pain. Subjectivity seems to be integrated into the concept of pain but is often confined to self-reported pain. Although it seems likely that past and current pain experiences would interact and influence subjective pain reports, the influence of these factors has not been investigated in the context of physiological pain. The current study focused on exploring the influence of past/current pain on self-reporting and pupillary responses to pain. Methods Overall, 47 participants were divided into two groups, a 4°C-10°C group (experiencing major pain first) and a 10°C-4°C group (experiencing minor pain first), and performed cold pressor tasks (CPT) twice for 30 s each. During the two rounds of CPT, participants reported their pain intensity, and their pupillary responses were measured. Subsequently, they reappraised their pain ratings in the first CPT session. Results Self-reported pain showed a significant difference (4°C-10°C: p = 0.045; 10°C-4°C: p < 0.001) in the rating of cold pain stimuli in both groups, and this gap was higher in the 10°C-4°C group than in the 4°C-10°C group. In terms of pupillary response, the 4°C-10°C group exhibited a significant difference in pupil diameter, whereas this was marginally significant in the 10°C-4°C group (4°C-10°C: p < 0.001; 10°C-4°C: p = 0.062). There were no significant changes in self-reported pain after reappraisal in either group. Discussion The findings of the current study confirmed that subjective and physiological responses to pain can be altered by previous experiences of pain.
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- Department of Psychology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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David Z, Nicolas M, Alexis G, Jennifer F. The effect of preconditioning on the modalities of pain management. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING 2023; 107:107568. [PMID: 36434861 DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of positive preconditioning on the specific modality of verbal and touch interventions, in pain management. METHODS We compared pain ratings in 51 participants who underwent a cold pressor test twice (T1, T2). The results from the first test were used as a reference. For the second test, the participants were divided into 5 groups. Four groups received verbal or touch intervention during the test, with or without preconditioning. The fifth group was a control group. We compared dVAS (pain ratings at T1 minus T2) between groups to assess the effect of the interventions and the preconditioning. We also explored the within-group association between dVAS and pain-related traits. RESULTS We found a significant effect of preconditioning on dVAS. The post hoc test showed that the preconditioned verbal group reported higher dVAS than the non-preconditioned one. Participants' emotional awareness scores were negatively correlated with dVAS in the preconditioned touch group. CONCLUSION These data suggested that preconditioning enhances pain management, regardless of intervention modalities. However, the preconditioning effect for the touch modality was negatively associated with the participants' emotional awareness. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Communication must be adapted with caution, depending on the treatment and the patients' emotional status.
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- Zarka David
- Research Unit in Sciences of Osteopathy, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Research Unit in Motor Psychophysiology, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Erasme Campus, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Research Unit in Motor Psychophysiology, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Erasme Campus, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Research Unit in Motor Psychophysiology, Faculty of Motor Sciences, Erasme Campus, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Ferreira-Valente A, Van Dyke BP, Day MA, Teotónio do Carmo C, Pais-Ribeiro J, Pimenta F, Costa RM, Jensen MP. Immediate Effects of Hypnosis, Mindfulness Meditation, and Prayer on Cold Pressor Outcomes: A Four-Arm Parallel Experimental Study. J Pain Res 2022; 15:4077-4096. [PMID: 36582659 PMCID: PMC9793782 DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s388082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Purpose Previous research supports the usefulness of hypnosis (HYP), mindfulness meditation (MM), and prayer as pain self-management strategies in adults with chronic pain. However, their effects on acute pain have been less researched, and no previous head-to-head study compared the immediate effects of these three approaches on pain-related outcomes. This study compared the immediate effects of HYP, MM, and Christian prayer (CP) on pain intensity, pain tolerance, and stress as assessed by heart rate variability (HRV). Participants and Methods A total of 232 healthy adults were randomly assigned to, and completed, a single 20-minute session of MM, SH, CP, or an attention control (CN), and underwent two cycles (one pre- and one post-intervention) of Cold Pressor Arm Wrap (CPAW). Sessions were audio-delivered. Participants responded to pre- and post-intervention pain intensity measurements. Pain tolerance (sec) was assessed during the CPAW cycles. HRV was assessed at baseline, and at pre- and post-intervention CPAW cycles. The study protocol was pre-registered at the ClinicalTrials.gov registry (NCT04491630). Results Small within-group decreases in pain intensity and small increases in pain tolerance were found for HYP and MM from the pre- to the post-intervention. Small within-group improvements in the LH/HF ratio were also found for HYP. The exploratory between-group pairwise comparisons revealed a medium effect size effects of HYP on pain tolerance relative to the control condition. The effects of CP were positive, but small and not statistically significant. Only small to medium, though non-significant, Time × Group interaction effects were found. Conclusion Study results suggest that single short-term HYP and MM sessions, but not biblical-based CP, may be useful for acute pain self-management, with HYP being the slightly superior option. Future research should compare the effects of different types of prayer and examine the predictors and moderators of these pain approaches' effects on pain-related outcomes.
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- Alexandra Ferreira-Valente
- William James Center for Research, Ispa – University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal,Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA,Research Center for Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal,Correspondence: Alexandra Ferreira-Valente, Research Center for Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua de Diogo Botelho, Porto, 1327 4169-005, Portugal, Tel +351 226196200, Email
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA,School of Psychology, Faculty of Health & Behavioral Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- William James Center for Research, Ispa – University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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- William James Center for Research, Ispa – University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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- William James Center for Research, Ispa – University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Christensen SWM, Almsborg, M. H, Vain, M. TS, Vaegter HB. The Effect of Virtual Reality on Cold Pain Sensitivity in Patients with Fibromyalgia and Pain-Free Individuals: A Randomized Crossover Study. Games Health J 2022. [DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2022.0138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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- Steffan Wittrup McPhee Christensen
- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Physiotherapy, University College of Northern Denmark, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Multidisciplinary Pain Center Naestved, Naestved Hospital, Naestved, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Smertefys.nu, Physiotherapy Clinic, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Pain Research Group, Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Winslow BD, Kwasinski R, Whirlow K, Mills E, Hullfish J, Carroll M. Automatic detection of pain using machine learning. FRONTIERS IN PAIN RESEARCH 2022; 3:1044518. [DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2022.1044518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Pain is one of the most common symptoms reported by individuals presenting to hospitals and clinics and is associated with significant disability and economic impacts; however, the ability to quantify and monitor pain is modest and typically accomplished through subjective self-report. Since pain is associated with stereotypical physiological alterations, there is potential for non-invasive, objective pain measurements through biosensors coupled with machine learning algorithms. In the current study, a physiological dataset associated with acute pain induction in healthy adults was leveraged to develop an algorithm capable of detecting pain in real-time and in natural field environments. Forty-one human subjects were exposed to acute pain through the cold pressor test while being monitored using electrocardiography. A series of respiratory and heart rate variability features in the time, frequency, and nonlinear domains were calculated and used to develop logistic regression classifiers of pain for two scenarios: (1) laboratory/clinical use with an F1 score of 81.9% and (2) field/ambulatory use with an F1 score of 79.4%. The resulting pain algorithms could be leveraged to quantify acute pain using data from a range of sources, such as ECG data in clinical settings or pulse plethysmography data in a growing number of consumer wearables. Given the high prevalence of pain worldwide and the lack of objective methods to quantify it, this approach has the potential to identify and better mitigate individual pain.
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Pechtel P, Belleau EL, Kaiser RH, Whitton AE, Beltzer M, Clegg R, Goer F, Vitaliano G, Teicher MH, Pizzagalli DA. Stress and reward: A multimodal assessment of childhood sexual abuse. Neurobiol Stress 2022; 21:100498. [PMID: 36532372 PMCID: PMC9755059 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Revised: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Background Childhood adversity has been found to impact stress and brain reward systems but it is unclear whether interactions between these systems might explain resilient vs. non-resilient trajectories following childhood sexual abuse (CSA). To address this gap, we adopted a multimodal approach in which cortisol reactivity to an acute stressor was assessed in conjunction with behavioral and neural measures of reward responsiveness in females with major depressive disorder (MDD) or no psychiatric disorders (i.e., resilient) who experienced CSA compared to females with and without MDD who did not experience abuse. Methods Latent Class Mixed Modelling (LCMM) identified classes of adults (n = 62; MAge = 26.48, SD = 5.68) characterized by distinct cortisol trajectories in response to a combined social evaluative cold pressor task. Classes were examined for their history of CSA and resilience as well as behavioral and neural measures of reward responsiveness using 128-channel electroencephalography (event-related potentials and source localization analysis). Results LCMM analysis identified two distinct classes of individuals with increased (Responders) or blunted (Non-Responders) cortisol reactivity to an acute stressor. Unlike Responders, Non-Responders did not modulate reward responses throughout the stress manipulation. No differences emerged between Responders and Non-Responders in terms of CSA or resilience. However, exploratory results showed that blunted cortisol response and non-modulation of reward responses emerged for those who experienced CSA at a younger age. Conclusions Co-occurring blunted stress and reward reactivity emerged irrespective of adults' experience of CSA or resilience. However, preliminary findings showed that CSA ending during peripubertal development was associated with blunted cortisol and reward responsiveness. Future research needs to replicate findings in larger samples and could investigate if increasing reward responsiveness during critical times of neurodevelopment could normalize stress reactivity to future stressors and thus promote resilience.
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- Pia Pechtel
- University of Exeter, Department of Psychology, Exeter, UK
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
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- Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- McLean Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
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Kreddig N, Hasenbring MI, Keogh E. Comparing the Effects of Thought Suppression and Focused Distraction on Pain-Related Attentional Biases in Men and Women. THE JOURNAL OF PAIN 2022; 23:1958-1972. [PMID: 35914643 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Increasing attentional focus away from pain can affect pain experience, suggesting that cognitive strategies that move attentional allocation may be a moderator of pain. In a pre-post-design, the present study examined the effects of 2 cognitive strategies used in pain contexts, thought suppression and focused distraction, on subsequent pain-related attention. Thought suppression was hypothesized to increase pain-related attention, whereas focused distraction was expected to reduce it. Influences of both anxiety and sex were also considered, as secondary questions. 139 (86 women, 53 men) healthy, pain-free participants were randomly assigned to use either thought suppression or focused distraction during a mild cold pressor test (CPT). Pain-related attention was examined using a dot-probe and an attentional blink task, pre-and post-CPT. Questionnaires about relevant cognitive and emotional aspects, demographics, and pain were completed. Results showed no difference in the effect of the 2 pain inhibition strategies on pain-related attention. The hypothesized rebound effect in thought suppression on pain-related attention did not emerge. However, thought suppression showed a short-term benefit in comparison to focused distraction regarding reported pain and perceived threat during the cold pressor test. Few sex differences were found. Thus, the cognitive strategies affected pain outcomes, but did not influence pain-related attention. PERSPECTIVE: Cognitive strategies could help with pain through changing attention allocation. In this study, the effects of the 2 cognitive strategies thought suppression and focused distraction on pain-related attention in men and women were examined. Elucidating mechanisms that lie behind pain strategies that focus on changing attention may help improve treatments.
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- Nina Kreddig
- Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; University of Bath, Bath, UK.
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Zunhammer M, Goltz G, Schweifel M, Stuck BA, Bingel U. Savor the flavor: A randomized double-blind study assessing taste-enhanced placebo analgesia in healthy volunteers. Clin Transl Sci 2022; 15:2709-2719. [PMID: 36088659 PMCID: PMC9652436 DOI: 10.1111/cts.13397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Placebo effects substantially contribute to analgesic treatment outcomes and might be leveraged to enhance gold-standard treatments. The taste of oral medications has been proposed to boost placebo effects. Here, we aimed at estimating how far the taste of an oral medication enhances placebo analgesia. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, between-group, single-visit study, with pre-treatment baseline. Over the course of three substudies, 318 healthy volunteers (297 included) were tested in a clinical trial setting. Participants were subjected to experimental tonic cold water pain (cold pressor test) before and after receiving taste-neutral (water), or bitter (quinine), or sweet (saccharin), or no placebo drops. Pre- versus post-treatment changes in area under the pain rating curve, the main outcome, indicated that placebo treatment showed a small analgesic effect versus no treatment. Added taste induced placebo enhancement in the very small effect size range, but accounted for a substantial portion of the overall placebo effect. No noteworthy advantage of sweet over bitter placebo was observed. An exploration of heart rate (HR) recordings indicated that placebo treatments were associated with an increase in peak HR-response to cold water, but these were not associated with placebo analgesia at an individual level. Placebo treatments were associated with minimal side effects. These results indicate that added taste may be an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, and safe way to optimize treatment outcomes and that taste-neutral preparations may reduce placebo-related outcome variance in clinical trials. Further studies are needed to test if these findings can be translated into clinical scenarios.
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- Matthias Zunhammer
- Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro‐ and Behavioral Sciences (C‐TNBS)University Hospital EssenEssenGermany
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro‐ and Behavioral Sciences (C‐TNBS)University Hospital EssenEssenGermany
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro‐ and Behavioral Sciences (C‐TNBS)University Hospital EssenEssenGermany
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital MarburgPhilipps‐Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro‐ and Behavioral Sciences (C‐TNBS)University Hospital EssenEssenGermany
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Lakhsassi L, Borg C, Martusewicz S, van der Ploeg K, de Jong PJ. The influence of sexual arousal on subjective pain intensity during a cold pressor test in women. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0274331. [PMID: 36197910 PMCID: PMC9534408 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Pain can be significantly lessened by sex/orgasm, likely due to the release of endorphins during sex, considered potent analgesics. The evidence suggests that endorphins are also present during sexual arousal (that is, prior to sex/orgasm). It follows then that pain can be modulated during sexual arousal, independent of sex/orgasm, too. Accordingly, sexual arousal induced by erotic slides has been demonstrated to lessen pain in men, but not in women. One explanation could be that for women, the erotic slides were not potent enough to elicit a lasting primed state of sexual arousal by the time pain was induced. Thus, the current study aims to optimize the means of inducing a potent state of sexual arousal and subsequently examine the potentially analgesic influence of sexual arousal on pain in women. As a subsidiary aim, the study also assesses whether the anticipated analgesic effect of sexual arousal would be stronger than that of distraction or generalized (non-sexual) arousal. METHODS Female participants (N = 151) were randomly distributed across four conditions: sexual arousal, generalized arousal, distraction, neutral. Mild pain was induced using a cold pressor while participants were concurrently exposed to film stimuli (pornographic, exciting, distracting, neutral) to induce the targeted emotional states. A visual analogue scale was utilized to measure the subjective level of pain perceived by the participants. RESULTS Sexual arousal did not reduce subjective pain. Generalized arousal and distraction did not result in stronger analgesic effects than the neutral condition. CONCLUSION The present findings do not support the hypothesis that sexual arousal alone modulates subjective pain in women. This might be due to the possibility that genital stimulation and/or orgasm are key in pain reduction, or, that feelings of disgust may inadvertently have been induced by the pornographic stimulus and interfered with sexual arousal in influencing pain.
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- Lara Lakhsassi
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Leonard SJ, Zegel M, Venta A, Vujanovic AA. Insecure Adult Attachment Style and PTSD Symptom Severity among Firefighters: The Role of Distress Tolerance. JOURNAL OF AGGRESSION, MALTREATMENT & TRAUMA 2022; 32:592-610. [PMID: 37377579 PMCID: PMC10292721 DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2022.2078681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among firefighters are prevalent and well-documented. Insecure adult attachment style (AAS) and distress tolerance (DT) present two factors with demonstrated relevance to the etiology and maintenance of PTSD. Few studies have examined these constructs in relation to PTSD symptomatology among firefighter populations. The present investigation examined the indirect effect of insecure romantic AAS (i.e., anxious AAS, avoidant AAS) on PTSD symptom severity through DT among firefighters. Exploratory analyses examined this model with each of the PTSD symptom clusters as outcomes. The sample was comprised of 105 firefighters (Mage=40.43, SD=9.15, 95.2% male) recruited from various departments in the southern U.S. An indirect effect was calculated using 10,000 bootstrapped samples. Indirect effects models in the primary analyses were significant when both anxious AAS (β=.20, SE=.10, CI=.06-.43) and avoidant AAS (β=.28, SE=.12, CI=.08-.54) were evaluated as predictors. Effects were evident after accounting for gender, relationship status, years of fire service, and trauma load (i.e., number of potentially traumatic event types experienced). Exploratory analyses revealed that anxious and avoidant AAS are both indirectly related to the PTSD intrusion, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity symptom clusters through DT. Anxious AAS also demonstrated an indirect association with PTSD avoidance symptoms through DT. Attachment styles may influence PTSD symptoms among firefighters through a firefighter's perceived ability to withstand emotional distress. This line of inquiry has potential to inform specialized intervention programs for firefighters. Clinical and empirical implications are discussed.
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Ye Y, Wang J, Che X. Concurrent TMS-EEG to Reveal the Neuroplastic Changes in the Prefrontal and Insular Cortices in the Analgesic Effects of DLPFC-rTMS. Cereb Cortex 2022; 32:4436-4446. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 11/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is an important target for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to reduce pain. However, the analgesic efficacy of DLPFC-rTMS needs to be optimized, in which the mechanisms of action remain unclear. Concurrent TMS and electroencephalogram (TMS-EEG) is able to evaluate neuroplastic changes beyond the motor cortex. Using TMS-EEG, this study was designed to investigate the local and distributed neuroplastic changes associated with DLPFC analgesia. Thirty-four healthy adults received DLPFC or sham stimulation in a randomized, crossover design. In each session, participants underwent cold pain and TMS-EEG assessment both before and after 10-Hz rTMS. We provide novel findings that DLPFC analgesia is associated with a smaller N120 amplitude in the contralateral prefrontal cortex as well as with a larger N120 peak in the ipsilateral insular cortex. Furthermore, there was a strong negative correlation between N120 changes of these two regions whereby the amplitude changes of this dyad were associated with increased pain threshold. In addition, DLPFC stimulation enhanced coherence between the prefrontal and somatosensory cortices oscillating in the gamma frequency. Overall, our data present novel evidence on local and distributed neuroplastic changes associated with DLPFC analgesia.
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Wu F, Mai W, Tang Y, Liu Q, Chen J, Guo Z. Learning Spatial-Spectral-Temporal EEG Representations with Deep Attentive-Recurrent-Convolutional Neural Networks for Pain Intensity Assessment. Neuroscience 2022; 481:144-155. [PMID: 34843893 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.11.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based quantitative pain measurement is valuable in the field of clinical pain treatment, providing objective pain intensity assessment especially for nonverbal patients who are unable to self-report. At present, a key challenge in modeling pain events from EEG is to find invariant representations for intra- and inter-subject variations, where current methods based on hand-crafted features cannot provide satisfactory results. Hence, we propose a novel method based on deep learning to learn such invariant representations from multi-channel EEG signals and demonstrate its great advantages in EEG-based pain classification tasks. To begin, instead of using typical EEG analysis techniques that ignore spatial information of EEG, we convert raw EEG signals into a sequence of multi-spectral topography maps (topology-preserving EEG images). Next, inspired by various deep learning techniques applied in neuroimaging domain, a deep Attentive-Recurrent-Convolutional Neural Network (ARCNN) is proposed here to learn spatial-spectral-temporal representations from EEG images. The proposed method aims to jointly preserve the spatial-spectral-temporal structures of EEG, for learning representations with high robustness against intra-subject and inter-subject variations, making it more conducive to multi-class and subject-independent scenarios. Empirical evaluation on 4-level pain intensity assessment within the subject-independent scenario demonstrated significant improvement over baseline and state-of-the-art methods in this field. Our approach applies deep neural networks (DNNs) to pain intensity assessment for the first time and demonstrates its potential advantages in modeling pain events from EEG.
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- Fengjie Wu
- Laboratory Center of Guangzhou University, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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- School of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Camerone EM, Battista S, Benedetti F, Carlino E, Sansone LG, Buzzatti L, Scafoglieri A, Testa M. The Temporal Modulation of Nocebo Hyperalgesia in a Model of Sustained Pain. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:807138. [PMID: 35401252 PMCID: PMC8983965 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.807138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The direction and the magnitude of verbal suggestions have been shown to be strong modulators of nocebo hyperalgesia, while little attention has been given to the role of their temporal content. Here, we investigate whether temporal suggestions modulate the timing of nocebo hyperalgesia in an experimental model of sustained pain. METHODS Fifty-one healthy participants were allocated to one of three groups. Participants received an inert cream and were instructed that the agent had either hyperalgesic properties setting in after 5 (Nocebo 5, N5) or 30 (Nocebo 30, N30) minutes from cream application, or hydrating properties (No Expectation Group, NE). Pain was induced by the Cold Pressure Test (CPT) which was repeated before cream application (baseline) and after 10 (Test10) and 35 (Test35) minutes. Changes in pain tolerance and in HR at each test point in respect to baseline were compared between the three groups. RESULTS Tolerance change at Test 10 (Δ10) was greater in N5 (MED = -36.8; IQR = 20.9) compared to NE (MED = -5.3; IQR = 22.4; p < 0.001) and N30 (MED = 0.0; IQR = 23.1; p < 0.001), showing that hyperalgesia was only present in the group that expected the effect of the cream to set in early. Tolerance change at Test 35 (Δ35) was greater in N5 (MED = -36.3; IQR = 35.3; p = 0.002) and in N30 (MED = -33.3; IQR = 34.8; p = 0.009) compared to NE, indicating delayed onset of hyperalgesia in N30, and sustained hyperalgesia in N5. No group differences were found for HR. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated that temporal expectations shift nocebo response onset in a model of sustained pain.
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- Eleonora Maria Camerone
- Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.,Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.,Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy.,Plateau Rosà Laboratories, Plateau Rosà, Switzerland
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.,School of Allied Health, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.,Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Experimental Anatomy Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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Rogers ML, Gallyer AJ, Dougherty SP, Gorday JY, Nelson JA, Teasdale OD, Joiner TE. Are all pain tolerance tasks the same? Convergent validity of four behavioral pain tolerance tasks, self-reported capability for suicide, and lifetime self-injurious behaviors. J Clin Psychol 2021; 77:2929-2942. [PMID: 34825357 DOI: 10.1002/jclp.23283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Discrepancies persist regarding the extent to which different pain measures provide similar information and relate to capability for suicide and self-injurious behaviors. This study examined pain threshold, tolerance, and persistence across four modalities (cold, heat, pressure, shock) and assessed associations with self-reported capability for suicide, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and suicide attempts. METHODS A sample of 211 students who reported lifetime suicidal ideation completed four behavioral pain tasks and self-reported on capability for suicide, NSSI, and self-injurious behaviors. RESULTS All pain thresholds, tolerances, and persistences were positively correlated across the four tasks. Pain facets were related to self-reported capability for suicide with small effect sizes but generally did not differ across suicide attempt or NSSI histories. CONCLUSIONS Pain thresholds, tolerances, and persistences demonstrated convergent validity across the four modalities, suggesting that these tasks provide similar information. Although the relation between pain and self-injurious behaviors remains unclear, these tasks can generally be used interchangeably.
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- Megan L Rogers
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, USA
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De Aquino JP, Parida S, Avila-Quintero VJ, Flores J, Compton P, Hickey T, Gómez O, Sofuoglu M. Opioid-induced analgesia among persons with opioid use disorder receiving methadone or buprenorphine: A systematic review of experimental pain studies. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 228:109097. [PMID: 34601272 PMCID: PMC8595687 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Treating acute pain among persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) on opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is complex, and the therapeutic benefits of opioids remain unclear when weighted against their abuse potential and respiratory depressant effects. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of experimental pain studies examining opioid-induced analgesia among persons with OUD on OAT. We searched multiple databases from inception to July 30, 2021. Study quality was assessed by previously established validity measures. RESULTS Nine studies were identified, with a total of 225 participants, of whom 63% were male, and 37% were female. Six studies included methadone-maintained persons with OUD; four studies included buprenorphine-maintained persons with OUD; and three studies included healthy persons as comparison groups. Either additional doses of OAT or other opioids - morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, or remifentanil - were administered. In seven studies, persons with OUD on OAT did not experience analgesia, despite receiving opioid doses up to 20 times greater than those clinically used to treat severe pain among the opioid naïve. Conversely, in two studies, high-potency opioids did produce analgesia, albeit with greater abuse potential. Notably, persons with OUD on OAT remained vulnerable to respiratory depression. CONCLUSIONS Although persons with OUD on OAT can derive analgesic effects from opioids, high-potency compounds may be required to achieve clinically significant pain relief. Further, persons with OUD on OAT may remain vulnerable to opioid-induced abuse potential and respiratory depression. Together, these finding have clinical, methodological, and mechanistic implications for the treatment of acute pain in the context of OAT.
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- Joao P De Aquino
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, Building 36/116A4, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, Building 36/116A4, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 418 Curie Boulevard, Room 402, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, Building 36/116A4, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 7th Street, 46-62, Bogota, Colombia
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, Building 36/116A4, West Haven, CT 06516, USA; Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Jansen N, Dollen R, van den Berg B, Berfelo T, Krabbenbos IP, Buitenweg JR. Combined Evaluation of Nociceptive Detection Thresholds and Evoked Potentials during Conditioned Pain Modulation: A Feasibility Study. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:1427-1430. [PMID: 34891553 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Deficient top-down inhibitory control via diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) is a mechanism known to be responsible for the maintenance and development in several chronic pain syndromes. Experimentally, DNIC is often induced by conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigms such as a Cold Pressor Test (CPT). Recently, a method called the NDT-EP method has been developed with the aim to evaluate the nociceptive function, which it does via simultaneous tracking of nociceptive detection thresholds (NDT) and evoked potentials (EP). It remains to be investigated whether we can evaluate DNIC via the NDT-EP method. In this study, we take the first step to investigate this by evaluating the feasibility to combine the NDT-EP method with a 7 minutes CPT. In total 20 participants of a wide age-range were measured before, during, and after a CPT. All except 1 participant were able to complete the protocol, and enough stimulus-response pairs could be obtained for psychophysical as well as electrophysiological evaluation. Preliminary analysis of the NDT's and EP's showed results in line with earlier research such as a higher threshold for nociceptive stimuli and a lower EP amplitudes. Several NDT's of mostly elderly people (59±16 years), however, exceeded the maximum applicable stimulus strength during (7/20) or after (9/20) CPT and consequently had to be excluded from the analysis. To what extent this is a consequence of the CPT or other factors such as strong habituation associated more with elderly people, is subject to further investigation. In conclusion, the results of this study show that with the present protocol, it is feasible to combine the NDT-EP method with a CPM paradigm in almost all subjects, but that the NDT data of mostly older subjects could not be properly analyzed. Further directions for research and improvements are outlined.
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Blekić W, Rossignol M, Wauthia E, Felmingham KL. Influence of acute stress on attentional bias toward threat: How a previous trauma exposure disrupts threat apprehension. Int J Psychophysiol 2021; 170:20-29. [PMID: 34597728 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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While previous trauma exposure is known to be a risk factor for the development and maintenance of many psychological disorders, it remains unclear how it increases individual risk for prospective psychopathology in the aftermath of a new trauma exposure. The aim of this study was to investigate how a prior exposure to trauma affects attentional processing of threat before and after an acute stress task. Specifically, we assessed attentional biases to threat before and after a cold pressor task in 17 individuals who have been exposed to trauma (TE) compared to 18 individuals without trauma exposure (NTE). Behavioral results showed difficulties to disengage from threat in TE but not in the control group prior to stress induction, as well as a switch to an attentional bias toward threat after the cold pressor task in the TE group. For the ERPs, we highlighted (1) decreased N1 negativity in response to threatening stimuli after an acute stress in both groups, and (2) a parallel increase in P1 for such stimuli only in the TE group. Those results suggest a vulnerability presented by previously traumatized individuals when dealing with threats as well as an acute responsitity toward stress. Those results are interpreted in regards with the theorical models of stress and anxiety.
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- Wivine Blekić
- Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Mons, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Mons, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Mons, Belgium
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- School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Link P, Venkatachalam AM, Aguilera V, Stutzman SE, Olson DM. Exploring the Face Validity of the Pain Numeric Rating Scale Among Healthcare Providers. J Neurosci Nurs 2021; 53:215-219. [PMID: 34380975 DOI: 10.1097/jnn.0000000000000600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers (HCPs) use the numeric rating scale (NRS) under the assumption that it provides reliable information from which to make decisions regarding analgesic administration. METHODS: We explored the face validity of the NRS using a prospective single-blinded observational design. Pre and post NRS scores were obtained from HCPs who submerged their hand in a bucket of ice water (pain stimulus). RESULTS: Despite a consistent similar pain source, individual HCPs rated their pain very differently (range, 2-10), and there was a significant difference in self-estimated pain tolerance (μ = 7.06 [SD, 1.43]) and actual pain scores (μ = 6.35 [SD, 2.2]; t = 4.08, P < .001). CONCLUSION: The findings indicate a limitation in the face validity of the NRS. The high variance in NRS scores reaffirms the subjectivity of pain perception and brings into question the utility of using NRS scores when determining analgesic dosages.
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Felig RN, Jordan JA, Shepard SL, Courtney EP, Goldenberg JL, Roberts TA. When looking 'hot' means not feeling cold: Evidence that self-objectification inhibits feelings of being cold. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 61:455-470. [PMID: 34346518 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Self-objectification, the internalization of an observer's appearance-based perspective of one's body, has been theorized and demonstrated to reduce body awareness among women. In this field study, we propose self-objectification as the mechanism to explain the oft-observed phenomenon where women wearing little clothing appear unbothered by cold weather, positing that self-objectification obstructs women's feelings of cold. We surveyed women outside nightclubs on cold nights, assessed self-objectification, and asked participants to report how cold they felt. Anonymous photos were taken and coded for amount of skin exposure. We hypothesized that self-objectification would moderate the relationship between clothing coverage and reports of feeling cold. Our hypothesis was supported: women low in self-objectification showed a positive, intuitive, relationship between skin exposure and perceptions of coldness, but women more highly focused on their appearance did not feel colder when wearing less clothing. These findings offer support for the relationship between self-objectification and awareness of bodily sensations in the context of a naturalistic setting. We discuss implications of these findings, and also consider limitations, an alternative explanation, and directions for future research.
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- Roxanne N Felig
- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Ide-Walters C, Thompson T. A Sham-Controlled Study of Neurofeedback for Pain Management. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:591006. [PMID: 34381326 PMCID: PMC8350778 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.591006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Neurofeedback (NFB) attempts to alter the brain’s electrophysiological activity and has shown potential as a pain management technique. Existing studies, however, often lack appropriate control groups or fail to assess whether electrophysiological activity has been successfully regulated. The current study is a randomized controlled trial comparing changes in brain activity and pain during NFB with those of a sham-control group. Methods An experimental pain paradigm in healthy participants was used to provide optimal control of pain sensation. Twenty four healthy participants were blind randomized to receive either 10 × NFB (with real EEG feedback) or 10 × sham (with false EEG feedback) sessions during noxious cold stimulation. Prior to actual NFB training, training protocols were individually determined for each participant based on a comparison of an initial 32-channel qEEG assessment administered at both baseline and during an experimental pain task. Each individual protocol was based on the electrode site and frequency band that showed the greatest change in amplitude during pain, with alpha or theta up-regulation at various electrode sites (especially Pz) the most common protocols chosen. During the NFB sessions themselves, pain was assessed at multiple times during each session on a 0–10 rating scale, and ANOVA was used to examine changes in pain ratings and EEG amplitude both across and during sessions for both NFB and sham groups. Results For pain, ANOVA trend analysis found a significant general linear decrease in pain across the 10 sessions (p = 0.015). However, no significant main or interaction effects of group were observed suggesting decreases in pain occurred independently of NFB. For EEG, there was a significant During Session X Group interaction (p = 0.004), which indicated that EEG amplitude at the training site was significantly closer to the target amplitude for the NFB compared to the sham group during painful stimulation, but this was only the case at the beginning of the cold task. Conclusion While these results must be interpreted within the context of an experimental pain model, they underline the importance of including an appropriate comparison group to avoid attributing naturally occurring changes to therapeutic effects.
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- Charlotte Ide-Walters
- Centre for Chronic Illness and Ageing, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom.,Cancer Research UK, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Chronic Illness and Ageing, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
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Spinella TC, Stewart SH, Naugler J, Yakovenko I, Barrett SP. Evaluating cannabidiol (CBD) expectancy effects on acute stress and anxiety in healthy adults: a randomized crossover study. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2021; 238:1965-1977. [PMID: 33813611 PMCID: PMC8233292 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05823-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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RATIONALE Cannabidiol (CBD) has been reported to attenuate stress and anxiety, but little is known about the extent to which such effects result from pharmacological versus expectancy factors. OBJECTIVES We evaluated whether CBD expectancy alone could influence stress, anxiety, and mood, and the extent to which beliefs regarding CBD effects predicted these responses. METHODS In this randomized crossover study, 43 health adults (23 women) attended two experimental laboratory sessions, where they self-administered CBD-free hempseed oil sublingually. During one session, they were (incorrectly) informed that the oil contained CBD and in the other session, that the oil was CBD-free. Following administration, participants engaged in the Maastricht Acute Stress Test (MAST). Heart rate variability (HRV) was assessed continuously, and subjective state was assessed at baseline, 90-min following oil administration, immediately following the MAST, and after a 10-min recovery period. RESULTS The CBD expectancy condition was associated with increased sedation as well as with changes in HRV that were consistent with heightened anticipatory stress regulation. Overall, there were no systematic changes in subjective stress, or anxiety, according to expectancy condition. However, participants who endorsed strong a priori beliefs that CBD has anxiolytic properties reported significantly diminished anxiety in the CBD expectancy condition. CONCLUSIONS CBD expectancy alone impacted several subjective and physiological responses. Additionally, expectancy-related factors were implicated in anxiolytic effects of CBD for those who believed it was helpful for such purposes, emphasizing the need to measure and control for CBD-related expectancies in clinical research that involves the administration of CBD.
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- Toni C Spinella
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.
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Forster DE, Billingsley J, Burnette JL, Lieberman D, Ohtsubo Y, McCullough ME. Experimental evidence that apologies promote forgiveness by communicating relationship value. Sci Rep 2021; 11:13107. [PMID: 34162912 PMCID: PMC8222305 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92373-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Robust evidence supports the importance of apologies for promoting forgiveness. Yet less is known about how apologies exert their effects. Here, we focus on their potential to promote forgiveness by way of increasing perceptions of relationship value. We used a method for directly testing these causal claims by manipulating both the independent variable and the proposed mediator. Namely, we use a 2 (Apology: yes vs. no) × 2 (Value: high vs. low) concurrent double-randomization design to test whether apologies cause forgiveness by affecting the same causal pathway as relationship value. In addition to supporting this causal claim, we also find that apologies had weaker effects on forgiveness when received from high-value transgressors, suggesting that the forgiveness-relevant information provided by apologies is redundant with relationship value. Taken together, these findings from a rigorous methodological paradigm help us parse out how apologies promote relationship repair.
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- Daniel E Forster
- U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA
- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
- University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
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Slysz JT, Burr JF. Ischemic Preconditioning: Modulating Pain Sensitivity and Exercise Performance. Front Physiol 2021; 12:696488. [PMID: 34239452 PMCID: PMC8258159 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.696488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether an individual’s IPC-mediated change in cold pain sensitivity is associated with the same individual’s IPC-mediated change in exercise performance. Methods Thirteen individuals (8 males; 5 females, 27 ± 7 years, 55 ± 5 ml.kgs–1.min–1) underwent two separate cold-water immersion tests: with preceding IPC treatment and without. In addition, each participant undertook two separate 5-km cycling time trials: with preceding IPC treatment and without. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to assess the relationship between an individual’s change in cold-water pain sensitivity following IPC with their change in 5-km time trial performance following IPC. Results During the cold-water immersion test, pain intensity increased over time (p < 0.001) but did not change with IPC (p = 0.96). However, IPC significantly reduced the total time spent under pain (−9 ± 7 s; p = 0.001) during the cold-water immersion test. No relationship was found between an individual’s change in time under pain (r = −0.2, p = 0.6) or pain intensity (r = −0.3, p = 0.3) following IPC and their change in performance following IPC. Conclusion These findings suggest that IPC can modulate sensitivity to a painful stimulus, but this altered sensitivity does not explain the ergogenic efficacy of IPC on 5-km cycling performance.
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- Joshua T Slysz
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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Kleine-Borgmann J, Wilhelmi J, Kratel J, Baumann F, Schmidt K, Zunhammer M, Bingel U. Tilidine and dipyrone (metamizole) in cold pressor pain: A pooled analysis of efficacy, tolerability, and safety in healthy volunteers. Clin Transl Sci 2021; 14:1997-2007. [PMID: 34058081 PMCID: PMC8504837 DOI: 10.1111/cts.13058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The cold pressor test (CPT) is widely implemented and offers a simple, experimental acute pain model utilizing cold pain. Previous trials have frequently paired the CPT with opioids in order to investigate the mechanisms underlying pharmacological analgesia, due to their known analgesic efficacy. However, opioid side effects may lead to unblinding and raise concerns about the safety of the experimental setting. Despite the established clinical efficacy of dipyrone (metamizole), its efficacy, tolerability, and safety in cold pressor pain has not been systematically addressed to date. This pooled analysis included data of 260 healthy volunteers from three randomized, placebo‐controlled, double‐blind substudies using the CPT following a pre‐test‐post‐test‐design. These substudies allow for comparing a single dose of 800 mg dipyrone with two different doses of the opioid tilidine/naloxone (50/4 mg and 100/8 mg, respectively). Outcomes included pain intensity ratings, pain tolerance, medication‐attributed side effects, as well as changes of blood pressure and heart rate. We demonstrate that both opioid doses and dipyrone had a comparable, significant analgesic effect on cold pressor pain. However, dipyrone was associated with significantly less self‐reported adverse effects and these were not significantly different from those under placebo. These results indicate that the combination of dipyrone and the CPT provides a safe, tolerable, and effective experimental model for the study of pharmacological analgesia. In combination with a CPT, dipyrone may be useful as a positive control, or baseline medication for the study of analgesic modulation.
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- Julian Kleine-Borgmann
- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.,Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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The relationship between dissociation and acute pain: the impact of prior and reactive dissociation. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-01798-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lee MC, Nahorski MS, Hockley JRF, Lu VB, Ison G, Pattison LA, Callejo G, Stouffer K, Fletcher E, Brown C, Drissi I, Wheeler D, Ernfors P, Menon D, Reimann F, Smith ESJ, Woods CG. Human Labor Pain Is Influenced by the Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel K V6.4 Subunit. Cell Rep 2021; 32:107941. [PMID: 32697988 PMCID: PMC7383234 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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By studying healthy women who do not request analgesia during their first delivery, we investigate genetic effects on labor pain. Such women have normal sensory and psychometric test results, except for significantly higher cuff pressure pain. We find an excess of heterozygotes carrying the rare allele of SNP rs140124801 in KCNG4. The rare variant KV6.4-Met419 has a dominant-negative effect and cannot modulate the voltage dependence of KV2.1 inactivation because it fails to traffic to the plasma membrane. In vivo, Kcng4 (KV6.4) expression occurs in 40% of retrograde-labeled mouse uterine sensory neurons, all of which express KV2.1, and over 90% express the nociceptor genes Trpv1 and Scn10a. In neurons overexpressing KV6.4-Met419, the voltage dependence of inactivation for KV2.1 is more depolarized compared with neurons overexpressing KV6.4. Finally, KV6.4-Met419-overexpressing neurons have a higher action potential threshold. We conclude that KV6.4 can influence human labor pain by modulating the excitability of uterine nociceptors. KCNG4 variant highly prevalent in women requiring no analgesia in childbirth KCNG4 variant encodes KV6.4Met-419; KV6.4 is a silent subunit modifying KV activity KV6.4Met-419 is retained in the cytoplasm and acts in a dominant-negative manner KV6.4Met-419 overexpression results in hypoexcitable sensory neurons
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- Michael C Lee
- University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, UK
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- University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- University Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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Basiński K, Zdun-Ryżewska A, Greenberg DM, Majkowicz M. Preferred musical attribute dimensions underlie individual differences in music-induced analgesia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8622. [PMID: 33883585 PMCID: PMC8060431 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87943-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Music-induced analgesia (MIA) is a phenomenon that describes a situation in which listening to music influences pain perception. The heterogeneity of music used in MIA studies leads to a problem of a specific effect for an unspecified stimulus. To address this, we use a previously established model of musical preferences that categorizes the multidimensional sonic space of music into three basic dimensions: arousal, valence and depth. Participants entered an experimental pain stimulation while listening to compilations of short musical excerpts characteristic of each of the three attribute dimensions. The results showed an effect on the part of music attribute preferences on average pain, maximal pain, and pain tolerance after controlling for musical attributes and order effects. This suggests that individual preferences for music attributes play a significant role in MIA and that, in clinical contexts, music should not be chosen arbitrarily but according to individual preferences.
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- Krzysztof Basiński
- Department of Quality of Life Research, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
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- Department of Quality of Life Research, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences & Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.,Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Health Science, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Słupsk, Poland
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Choi S, Park SG. Effects of anxiety-related psychological states on music-induced analgesia in cold pressor pain responses. Explore (NY) 2021; 18:25-30. [PMID: 33846083 DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2021.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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CONTEXT The analgesic effect of music has long been reported. OBJECTIVE To assess how anxiety-related psychological states affect the analgesic effect of music using the cold pressor task (CPT). DESIGN A 3-period × 3-sequence crossover design was adopted; three conditions were used: "no sound," "music-listening," and "news-listening." SETTING PARTICIPANTS: Forty-nine participants were included. INTERVENTIONS After completing five anxiety-related psychological instruments (Anxiety Sensitivity Index [ASI]-16, ASI-Revised, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory [STAI]-S, STAI-T, and Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20), the participants were allocated to the low- or high-anxiety group. The high- and low-anxiety groups were defined based on cutoff points according to the distributions and characteristics of the five instruments. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pain responses, such as pain tolerance time, pain intensity, and pain unpleasantness, were measured on the CPT. Pain responses in the music-listening condition were also compared to those in the other two conditions via pairwise comparisons within each anxiety group. RESULTS The Cronbach alpha of the five instruments ranged from 0.866 to 0.95, indicating that they were reliable. Pain responses in the music-listening condition in the low-anxiety groups based on any of the five scales were significantly different from those in the other conditions, but this effect was not found in the high-anxiety groups. This study demonstrates that anxiety-related psychological states can predict the analgesic effect of music on pain responses measured by the CPT and suggests that music may be beneficial as a pain management tool in low-anxiety groups.
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- Suvin Choi
- Da Vinci College of General Education, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
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Camerone EM, Wiech K, Benedetti F, Carlino E, Job M, Scafoglieri A, Testa M. 'External timing' of placebo analgesia in an experimental model of sustained pain. Eur J Pain 2021; 25:1303-1315. [PMID: 33619820 DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Research on placebo analgesia commonly focuses on the impact of information about direction (i.e., increase or decrease of pain) and magnitude of the expected analgesic effect, whereas temporal aspects of expectations have received little attention so far. In a recent study, using short-lasting, low-intensity stimuli, we demonstrated that placebo analgesia onset is influenced by temporal information. Here, we investigate whether the same effect of temporal suggestions can be found in longer lasting, high-intensity pain in a Cold Pressor Test (CPT). METHODS Fifty-three healthy volunteers were allocated to one of three groups. Participants were informed that the application of an (inert-)cream would reduce pain after 5 min (P5) or 30 min (P30). The third group was informed that the cream only had hydrating properties (NE). All participants completed the CPT at baseline and 10 (Test 10) and 35 min (Test 35) following cream application. Percentage change in exposure time (pain tolerance) from baseline to Test 10 (Δ10) and to Test 35 (Δ35) and changes in heart rate (HR) during CPT were compared between the three groups. RESULTS Δ10 was greater in P5 than in NE and P30, indicating that analgesia was only present in the group that was expecting an early onset of analgesia. Δ35 was greater in P5 and P30 compared to NE, reflecting a delayed onset of analgesia in P30 and maintained analgesia in P5. HR differences between groups were not significant. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that 'externally timing' of placebo analgesia may be possible for prolonged types of pain. SIGNIFICANCE Research on placebo effects mainly focuses on the influence of information about direction (i.e., increase or decrease of pain) and magnitude (i.e., strong or weak) of the expected effect but ignores temporal aspects of expectations. In our study in healthy volunteers, the reported onset of placebo analgesia followed the temporal information provided. Such 'external timing' effects could not only aid the clinical use of placebo treatment (e.g., in open-label placebos) but also support the efficacy of active drugs.
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- Eleonora Maria Camerone
- Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal and Child Science (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy.,Plateau Rosà Laboratories, Plateau Rosà, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal and Child Science (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal and Child Science (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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Szikszay TM, Adamczyk WM, Hoegner A, Woermann N, Luedtke K. The effect of acute-experimental pain models on offset analgesia. Eur J Pain 2021; 25:1150-1161. [PMID: 33533139 DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Offset analgesia (OA) is characterized by a disproportionately large decrease in pain perception after a slight decrease in noxious stimulation. In patients with ongoing pain, this response is reduced. The effect is pronounced in painful body areas. The influence of acute pain has not been sufficiently investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of two experimental acute pain models, measured within the area of acute pain and on the non-affected opposite side, thereby considering the possible somatotopic nature of OA. METHODS Healthy, pain-free volunteers (n = 75) were randomly assigned to one of three groups (cold water, exercise and control group). The 'cold water group' immersed one hand into cold water for 3 min (Cold Pressor Task), while the 'exercise group' performed an isometric grip exercise for 3 min. There was no manipulation in the control group. Each experimental pain stimulus was performed at both (dominant, non-dominant) forearms. The individualized OA paradigm consisted of offset and constant temperature trials. Offset analgesia was measured immediately before, during and after the experimental pain stimuli. RESULTS A significant difference in OA was shown during experimental pain when compared to the control condition (exercise vs. control: p < 0.001, cold vs. control: p = 0.001), with no difference between the experimental conditions (p > 0.05). Immediately following the pain stimulation, results were marginally non-significant (p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Experimental painful stimulation reduced OA. This result should be interpreted with caution due to potential influences of conditioned pain modulation or exercise-induced hypoalgesia as well as possible floor effects. SIGNIFICANCE Temporal contrast of pain perception is inhibited in acute pain states. This study showed that reduced offset analgesia is observed when pain is experimentally induced using noxious cold and exercise stimuli.
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- Tibor M Szikszay
- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Luebeck (P. E. R. L.), Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.,Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Luebeck (P. E. R. L.), Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.,Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Luebeck (P. E. R. L.), Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Luebeck (P. E. R. L.), Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Pain and Exercise Research Luebeck (P. E. R. L.), Institute of Health Sciences, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.,Laboratory of Pain Research, Institute of Physiotherapy and Health Sciences, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland
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Intranasal oxytocin and the stress-buffering effects of social support during experimentally induced pain: The role of attachment security. J Affect Disord 2021; 278:149-156. [PMID: 32961410 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.09.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND This study examined whether intranasal oxytocin enhances the stress-buffering effects of social support during experimentally induced pain, taking into account the role of individual differences in attachment security. METHODS Female participants (N = 193) were randomly assigned to oxytocin (24 IU intranasal) or placebo and to receive support or no support from a friend (2 × 2 factorial design with repeated measures)). Participants underwent the Cold Pressor Task (CPT) and were monitored for heart rate variability (HRV: RMSSD) and heart rate and reported pain levels. The Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire was used to measure attachment. RESULTS Oxytocin reduced RMSSD (p = 0.003, partial ɳ2 = 0.03) and increased heart rate (p = 0.039, partial ɳ2 = 0.03) in individuals who received support, possibly reflecting an enhanced attentional state. Oxytocin did not enhance beneficial effects of social support on perceived pain, but increased pain intensity in avoidantly attached individuals who were supported by a friend (p = 0.009, partial ɳ2 = 0.06). LIMITATIONS Only female participants were examined. Future studies are needed to determine sex differences in how oxytocin shapes stress-buffering effects of support. CONCLUSIONS Oxytocin may enhance the salience of social proximity and may be a mechanism underlying previously reported social influences on cardiovascular and mental health. However, oxytocin effects depend on interpersonal insecurities and may trigger discomfort in avoidantly attached individuals. Caution about oxytocin's therapeutic promise is warranted.
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Disley N, Kola-Palmer S, Retzler C. A comparison of open-label and deceptive placebo analgesia in a healthy sample. J Psychosom Res 2021; 140:110298. [PMID: 33227553 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES A small number of studies have supported the efficacy of open-label placebos (OLPs) in reducing pain. However, research comparing the effectiveness of OLPs with deceptive placebos (DPs) is limited, and the relative impact on pain tolerance versus intensity are not yet understood. This study therefore, examined the effectiveness of a nasal placebo administered openly and deceptively on pain intensity and tolerance during a cold pressor test (CPT). METHOD 75 healthy participants were allocated to one of three groups; OLP (n = 25), DP (n = 26) and no-treatment (NT; n = 24). A pre-test post-test design was used, with all participants completing a baseline and post-treatment CPT, following placebo administration in the treatment groups. RESULTS A one-way ANCOVA revealed significant differences between groups for pain intensity, with planned contrasts revealing that this effect was driven by an increase in pain intensity scores for the NT group within the post treatment CPT, which was not evident in the OLP and DP groups. There were no significant differences between groups for changes in pain tolerance. CONCLUSION The increase in pain intensity reported within the post-treatment CPT in the NT group was not apparent in either the OLP or DP groups, with no significant differences between OLP and DP effectiveness. These findings suggest that deception may not be necessary for effective placebo treatment and have implications for the management of pain.
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- Nathan Disley
- Department of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
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Paparella G, Di Stefano G, Fasolino A, Di Pietro G, Colella D, Truini A, Cruccu G, Berardelli A, Bologna M. Painful stimulation increases spontaneous blink rate in healthy subjects. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20014. [PMID: 33203984 PMCID: PMC7672065 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76804-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Spontaneous blink rate is considered a biomarker of central dopaminergic activity. Recent evidence suggests that the central dopaminergic system plays a role in nociception. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether pain modulates spontaneous blink rate in healthy subjects. We enrolled 15 participants. Spontaneous blink rate was quantified with an optoelectronic system before and after: (1) a painful laser stimulation, and (2) an acoustic startling stimulation. In control experiments, we investigated whether laser stimulation effects depended on stimulation intensity and whether laser stimulation induced any changes in the blink reflex recovery cycle. Finally, we investigated any relationship between spontaneous blink rate modification and pain modulation effect during the cold pressor test. Laser, but not acoustic, stimulation increased spontaneous blink rate. This effect was independent of stimulation intensity and negatively correlated with pain perception. No changes in trigeminal-facial reflex circuit excitability were elicited by laser stimulation. The cold pressor test also induced an increased spontaneous blink rate. Our study provides evidence on the role of dopamine in nociception and suggests that dopaminergic activity may be involved in pain modulation. These findings lay the groundwork for further investigations in patients with pathological conditions characterized by dopaminergic deficit and pain.
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy. .,Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy.,Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Dreves PA, Blackhart GC, McBee MT. Do behavioral measures of self-control assess construct-level variance? JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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