Goals, mood and performance duration on cognitive tasks during experimentally induced mechanical pressure pain

Karsdorp, Petra A.; Ranson, Saskia; Nijst, S.

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.07.009

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“…They used the same procedure, but additionally categorized participants based on their self-reported goal priority (avoiding pain versus seeking reward) and found that the effect of the concurrent goal on pain avoidance behavior was most pronounced in those participants who prioritized reward seeking, and less pronounced in those participants prioritizing pain avoidance. This is also in line with another study which experimentally manipulated goal pursuit during the performance of cognitive tasks while being exposed to pain and found that participants persisted longer in an achievement relative to a hedonic (avoiding pain) goal context [ 69 ].…”

Section: Human Studies To Investigate An Emotional-motivational Shsupporting

confidence: 88%

Emotional and Motivational Pain Processing: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives in Translational Research

Becker

Navratilova

Nees

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Pain Research and Management

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Pain elicits fear and anxiety and promotes escape, avoidance, and adaptive behaviors that are essential for survival. When pain persists, motivational priority and attention shift to pain-related information. Such a shift often results in impaired functionality, leading to maladaptive pain-related fear and anxiety and escape and avoidance behaviors. Neuroimaging studies in chronic pain patients have established that brain activity, especially in cortical and mesolimbic regions, is different from activity observed during acute pain in control subjects. In this review, we discuss the psychophysiological and neuronal factors that may be associated with the transition to chronic pain. We review information from human studies on neural circuits involved in emotional and motivational pain processing and how these circuits are altered in chronic pain conditions. We then highlight findings from animal research that can increase our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying emotional-motivational pain processing in the brain. Finally, we discuss how translational approaches incorporating results from both human and animal investigations may aid in accelerating the discovery of therapies.

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Section: Human Studies To Investigate An Emotional-motivational Shsupporting

confidence: 88%

Emotional and Motivational Pain Processing: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives in Translational Research

Becker

Navratilova

Nees

et al. 2018

Pain Research and Management

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“…Positive emotional states have demonstrated a variety of benefits in both healthy individuals and in those with a chronic pain condition, including enhanced stress recovery [47], improved immune function [48] and better cognitive performance under stressful conditions [49]. Positive affective states also demonstrate a variety of pain-specific benefits, including reducing ratings of pain intensity [50], promoting adaptive cognitive responses to pain [51] and increasing the ability to persist in goal-directed behavior under painful conditions [52]. It is thus clear that positive emotional states are key predictors of positive pain-related outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Pain and Physical Pain: Shared Paths To Resilience

2015

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Although clinical models have traditionally defined pain by its consequences for the behavior and internal states of the sufferer, recent evidence has highlighted the importance of examining pain in the context of the broader social environment. Neuroscience research has highlighted commonalities of neural pathways connecting the experience of physical and social pain, suggesting a substantial overlap between these phenomena. Further, interpersonal ties, support and aspects of the social environment can impair or promote effective adaptation to chronic pain through changes in pain perception, coping and emotional states. The current paper reviews the role of social factors in extant psychological interventions for chronic pain, and discusses how greater attention to these factors may inform future research and clinical care.

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“…More specifically, negative mood and holding hedonic goals are associated with less task persistence while positive mood and achievement goals predict longer task persistence [42][43][44][45] .…”

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A Self-Regulation Perspective on Avoidance and Persistence Behavior in Chronic Pain

Damme

Kindermans

2015

The Clinical Journal of Pain

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Objective: Behavioural factors such as avoidance and persistence have received massive theoretical and empirical attention in the attempts to explain chronic pain and disability. The determinants of these pain behaviours remain, however, poorly understood. We propose a self-regulation perspective to increase our understanding of pain-related avoidance and persistence.Methods: A narrative review.Results: We identified several theoretical views that may help explaining avoidance and persistence behaviour, and organized these views around 4 concepts central in self-regulation theories: (1) identity, (2) affective-motivational orientation, (3) goal cognitions, and (4) coping. The review shows that each of these self-regulation perspectives allows for a broadened view in which pain behaviors are not simply considered passive consequences of fear, but proactive strategies to regulate the self when challenged by pain.Discussion: Several implications and challenges arising from this review are discussed. In particular, a self-regulation perspective does not consider avoidance and persistence behaviour to be intrinsically adaptive or maladaptive, but argues that their effects on disability and wellbeing rather depend on the goals underlying these behaviours. Such view would require a shift in how avoidance and persistence behaviour are assessed and approached in clinical interventions.

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Goals, mood and performance duration on cognitive tasks during experimentally induced mechanical pressure pain

Cited by 17 publications

References 55 publications

Emotional and Motivational Pain Processing: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives in Translational Research

Emotional and Motivational Pain Processing: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives in Translational Research

Social Pain and Physical Pain: Shared Paths To Resilience

A Self-Regulation Perspective on Avoidance and Persistence Behavior in Chronic Pain

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