Observational Learning and Pain-Related Fear: Exploring Contingency Learning in an Experimental Study Using Colored Warm Water Immersions

Helsen, Kim; Goubert, Liesbet

doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2013.01.771

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“…One class of fear procedures that is used by some (211,236,676) but should perhaps be used by many more is observational fear. It represents a situation typical of many cases of PTSD (for example, those who witnessed the 9 -11 attack or other disasters, such as earthquakes and fires, or murder or torture).…”

Section: B Fear-motivated Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fear Memory

Izquierdo

Furini

Myskiw

2016

Physiological Reviews

370

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Fear memory is the best-studied form of memory. It was thoroughly investigated in the past 60 years mostly using two classical conditioning procedures (contextual fear conditioning and fear conditioning to a tone) and one instrumental procedure (one-trial inhibitory avoidance). Fear memory is formed in the hippocampus (contextual conditioning and inhibitory avoidance), in the basolateral amygdala (inhibitory avoidance), and in the lateral amygdala (conditioning to a tone). The circuitry involves, in addition, the pre-and infralimbic ventromedial prefrontal cortex, the central amygdala subnuclei, and the dentate gyrus. Fear learning models, notably inhibitory avoidance, have also been very useful for the analysis of the biochemical mechanisms of memory consolidation as a whole. These studies have capitalized on in vitro observations on long-term potentiation and other kinds of plasticity. The effect of a very large number of drugs on fear learning has been intensively studied, often as a prelude to the investigation of effects on anxiety. The extinction of fear learning involves to an extent a reversal of the flow of information in the mentioned structures and is used in the therapy of posttraumatic stress disorder and fear memories in general.

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Section: B Fear-motivated Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fear Memory

Izquierdo

Furini

Myskiw

2016

Physiological Reviews

370

259

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“…Previous research has shown that Pavlovian fear conditioning involves a network of brain regions, critically including the amygdala, which serves to enhance attentional allocation to the emotionally significant stimuli, and to shape CS-US associations and the ensuing CR (LeDoux, 2012;Phelps and LeDoux, 2005). In spite of a growing scientific interest in social or vicarious learning of fear in humans (Helsen et al, 2013; and nonhuman animals (Debiec and Sullivan, 2014;Jeon et al, 2010), the processes underlying the social transmission of fear remain largely unknown.…”

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Spontaneous eye movements and trait empathy predict vicarious learning of fear

Kleberg

Selbing

Hofvander

et al. 2015

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Numerous studies have investigated components of the model, including acquisition of pain-related fear, 22 fear-disability association, 36 catastrophizing, 45 hypervigilance, 46 and avoidance behavior. 18 However, the nature of the central component of the fear-avoidance model, the pain-related fear itself, remains neglected in the literature.…”

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Do patients with chronic pain show autonomic arousal when confronted with feared movements? An experimental investigation of the fear–avoidance model

Glombiewski

Riecke

Holzapfel

et al. 2015

Pain

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The relevance of a phobia-based conceptualization of fear for individuals with chronic pain has been much debated in the literature. This study investigated whether patients with highly fearful chronic low back pain show distinct physiological reaction patterns compared with less fearful patients when anticipating aversive back pain-related movements. We used an idiosyncratic fear induction paradigm and collected 2 different measures of autonomic nervous system activation and muscle tension in the lower back. We identified 2 distinct psychophysiological response patterns. One pattern was characterized by a moderate increase in skin conductance, interbeat interval (IBI) increase, and muscle tension increase in the lower back. This response was interpreted as an attention reaction to a moderately stressful event. The other pattern, found in 58% of the participants, was characterized by a higher skin conductance response, IBI decrease, and muscle tension increase in the lower back. According to Bradley and Lang defense cascade model, this response is typical of a fear reaction. Participants showing the psychophysiological pattern typical of fear also had elevated scores on some self-report measures of components of the fear-avoidance model, relative to participants showing the reaction pattern characteristic of attention. This study is the first to provide psychophysiological evidence for the fear-avoidance model of chronic pain.

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Observational Learning and Pain-Related Fear: Exploring Contingency Learning in an Experimental Study Using Colored Warm Water Immersions

Cited by 31 publications

References 51 publications

Fear Memory

Fear Memory

Spontaneous eye movements and trait empathy predict vicarious learning of fear

Do patients with chronic pain show autonomic arousal when confronted with feared movements? An experimental investigation of the fear–avoidance model

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