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Effects of chronic pain history on perceptual and cognitive inhibition
- Source :
- Experimental brain research. 238(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Measures of sensory and cognitive inhibition were obtained from university students with and without a history of chronic pain. The form of sensory inhibition measured was diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), the capacity of a painful stimulus to reduce the subjective intensity of a second stimulus delivered to a remote body site. To measure cognitive inhibition, the Stroop effect was used. Participants with a history of chronic pain showed less DNIC (i.e., less sensory inhibition) than the healthy controls, but had a smaller Stroop effect (indicating greater cognitive inhibition). The fact that chronic pain history is associated with opposite changes in these two measures casts doubt on the view that the two inhibitory processes are related. Scores on each experimental measure were equivalent in pain-history subjects with ongoing chronic pain and those whose chronic pain had resolved. This equivalence suggests that chronic pain in childhood or adolescence may have lingering effects on sensory and cognitive inhibition.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Nociception
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurology
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Sensory system
Audiology
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Executive Function
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
media_common
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Diffuse noxious inhibitory control
05 social sciences
Chronic pain
medicine.disease
Inhibition, Psychological
Cognitive inhibition
Female
Chronic Pain
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Stroop effect
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321106
- Volume :
- 238
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Experimental brain research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....20af2c62e7431fb351fe2b02ac34eb75