Distinct fMRI patterns colocalized in the cingulate cortex underlie the after-effects of cognitive control on pain

Silvestrini, Nicolas; Chen, Jen–I; Piché, Mathieu; Roy, Mathieu; Vachon-Presseau, Étienne; Woo, Chang‐Hoon; Wager, Tor D.; Rainville, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116898

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“…Regarding pain, the present findings are in line with previous studies suggesting that pain interacts with cognitive control resources and is related to cognitive control capacity (Silvestrini et al, , 2020Silvestrini & Rainville, 2013). However, whereas these previous studies revealed an impact of cognitive control on subsequent pain, the present study is the first one to show the impact of a painful procedure on a subsequent cognitive task.…”

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“…Although less ecological from a clinical point of view than simultaneous settings, sequential tasks have the advantage of studying the directionality of the influence. Previous studies showed increases in pain responses elicited by noxious stimuli following demanding cognitive tasks (Silvestrini et al, 2020;Silvestrini & Rainville, 2013). This indicated that when individuals mobilize cognitive resources in a first demanding task, they perceive subsequent pain as stronger.…”

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“…For instance, pain typically disrupts attention and impairs performance during demanding tasks, whereas engaging cognitive exercises reduce concurrent pain (Buhle & Wager, 2010;Moore et al, 2012;Sprenger et al, 2012;Valet et al, 2004). Moreover, activation of brain areas such as the anterior midcingulate cortex, the lateral prefrontal cortex, and the insular cortex, have been described during both pain and cognitive control, suggesting that both phenomena might recruit overlapping neurocognitive processes (Apkarian et al, 2005;Shackman et al, 2011;Silvestrini et al, 2020).…”

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The impact of pain on subsequent effort and cognitive performance

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Corradi‐Dell’Acqua²

2021

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Theoretical accounts of pain and empirical evidence indicate that pain and cognitive control share common neurocognitive processes. Numerous studies have examined the interactions between pain and cognitive performance when they occur simultaneously, typically showing analgesic effects of task performance and impaired performance due to pain. However, the sequential impact of pain on cognitive control and effort remains less clear. This study investigated the influence of a first task including painful vs. non-painful thermal stimuli on effort-related cardiac response and performance in a subsequent moderately difficult cognitive task. Drawing on the hypothesis that experiencing pain should recruit cognitive resources and reduce perceived ability, we predicted lower task performance and/or stronger compensatory effort in the subsequent cognitive task after the painful than after the non-painful first task. Results support our predictions regarding the effect of pain on subsequent cognitive performance, which was moderately lower after the painful task. However, such a decrease in task proficiency was not associated with a comparable decrease in perceived capacity or increase in effort-related cardiac reactivity. Nevertheless, further correlational analyses indicated that effort mobilization and perceived capacity were significantly related to pain ratings. Moderate pain was associated with stronger effort during the cognitive task whereas high pain led to disengagement, i.e., a low effort. Moreover, in line with our predictions, higher pain ratings were associated with lower self-reported capacity to perform the cognitive task. We discuss these findings regarding the relationship between effort and performance; the impact of fatigue on motivation; and interindividual variability in these after-effects.

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“…In various pain states, involvement of the ACC on functional imaging studies is almost constantly observed ( Watanabe et al, 2018 ; Shackman et al, 2011 ; Silvestrini et al, 2020 ), with a suggested role in affective and attentional responses to pain and in the selection of the response to pain. Additional areas of prefrontal cortex are thought to represent attentional and memory networks, which are also activated by noxious stimulation ( Peyron et al, 2000 ).…”

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Migraine Is More Than Just Headache: Is the Link to Chronic Fatigue and Mood Disorders Simply Due to Shared Biological Systems?

Karsan

Goadsby

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Migraine is a symptomatically heterogeneous condition, of which headache is just one manifestation. Migraine is a disorder of altered sensory thresholding, with hypersensitivity among sufferers to sensory input. Advances in functional neuroimaging have highlighted that several brain areas are involved even prior to pain onset. Clinically, patients can experience symptoms hours to days prior to migraine pain, which can warn of impending headache. These symptoms can include mood and cognitive change, fatigue, and neck discomfort. Some epidemiological studies have suggested that migraine is associated in a bidirectional fashion with other disorders, such as mood disorders and chronic fatigue, as well as with other pain conditions such as fibromyalgia. This review will focus on the literature surrounding alterations in fatigue, mood, and cognition in particular, in association with migraine, and the suggested links to disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome and depression. We hypothesize that migraine should be considered a neural disorder of brain function, in which alterations in aminergic networks integrating the limbic system with the sensory and homeostatic systems occur early and persist after headache resolution and perhaps interictally. The associations with some of these other disorders may allude to the inherent sensory sensitivity of the migraine brain and shared neurobiology and neurotransmitter systems rather than true co-morbidity.

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“…As self-control, effort and its perception are widely recognized in the psychophysiology literature to be a key determinant of performance (see the motivational intensity theory: e.g., Brehm & Self, 1989;Richter, Gendolla, & Wright, 2016; and the psychobiological model of endurance performance: e.g., Marcora, 2019;Pageaux, 2014). Self-control is also interacting with pain (Silvestrini & Rainville, 2013;Silvestrini et al, 2020), another perception that is known to be inherently costly and to interact with performance (Torta et al, 2017). While this accumulation of evidence reinforces the rationale of better understanding perception of effort to improve our knowledge on self-control, it has to be acknowledged that so far, most of the research on self-control and perception of effort is performed in "silos".…”

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Self-control in sports

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Pageaux²,

Wolff³

2021

Essentials of Exercise and Sport Psychology: An Open Access Textbook

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Imagine yourself walking to the gym in the rain after a long hard day at work. Picture yourself lifting heavy weights, even though you would prefer sitting on the sofa watching your favorite baseball team win a playoff match. This is just one sports-related example during which self-control processes enable us to keep striving for a desirable goal and suppress potentially tempting action alternatives. In general, "self-control refers to the capacity for altering one's own responses, especially to bring them into line with standards such as ideals, values, morals, and social expectations, and to support the pursuit of long-term goals" (Baumeister, Vohs, & Tice, 2007, p. 351) 1 . However, self-control is not always applied effectively as, for instance, evidenced by the large number of gym dropouts every year (e.g., Englert & Rummel, 2016).In this chapter, we will discuss empirical findings that highlight the importance of selfcontrol for sports-related performance and we will introduce the theoretical accounts that try to explain why self-control sometimes appears to fail. Finally, we will discuss open research questions in order to improve our understanding of how self-control operates and why it is not applied at all times. Self-control and the Sensation of EffortResearch on self-control has a long tradition: Narcissus Ach conducted the first studies on self-control already in the beginning of the 20 th century (Ach, 1905(Ach, , 1935. In general, there is a common agreement amongst researchers that exerting control over the self can be a tiring and unpleasant experience. In the mid-20 th century, Hull already stated that impulses or response tendencies have a motivational strength, suggesting that in order to resist these tendencies one must invest some kind of effort or willpower (Hull, 1943). Thus, the application of self-control is intrinsically linked to the sensation of effort (e.g., Kurzban, 2016;Shenhav et al. 2017). This sensation commonly refers to "the particular feeling of that energy being exerted" and is associated with "a sensation of strain and labor, a feeling that intensifies the harder a person tries" (Preston & Wegner, 2009, p. 570). This feeling of work is associated with voluntary actions and provides crucial information for the judgement of personal actions (Preston & Wegner, 2009).

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Distinct fMRI patterns colocalized in the cingulate cortex underlie the after-effects of cognitive control on pain

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The impact of pain on subsequent effort and cognitive performance

The impact of pain on subsequent effort and cognitive performance

Migraine Is More Than Just Headache: Is the Link to Chronic Fatigue and Mood Disorders Simply Due to Shared Biological Systems?

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