The sensory-discriminative and affective-motivational aspects of pain

Auvray, Malika; Myin, Erik; Spence, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.07.008

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“…In contrast, low catastrophizing parents engaged in comparable pain-attending behavior regardless of the information provided. The differential impact of contextual threat for high vs. low catastrophizing parents is consistent with an affective-motivational account of pain, conceptualizing pain as a source of distress, both drawing attention and associated with an urge to escape [2,28,72], particularly when perceived as highly threatening [54,74]. In the interpersonal context, painattending talk can be seen as a behavioral indicator of attention capture by pain, or reflect behavioral efforts at distress modulation caused by someone else's pain experience.…”

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Impact of parental catastrophizing and contextual threat on parents’ emotional and behavioral responses to their child’s pain

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Trost

et al. 2012

Pain

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Impact of parental catastrophizing and contextual threat on parents’ emotional and behavioral responses to their child’s pain

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Vervoort

Trost

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Pain

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“…during rumination). 28,29,35,34,41 To conclude, we can state that although the ability of pain to disrupt current performance is already frequently researched, and its function has been variously described as an evolved interrupt forming part of a general defensive system 4,18,40 , further research to clarify under which conditions pain interferes with task performance is still necessary.…”

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The Interruptive Effect of Pain in a Multitask Environment: An Experimental Investigation

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Crombez

Eccleston

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The Journal of Pain

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Daily life is characterized by the need to stop, start, repeat, and switch between multiple tasks. Here, we experimentally investigate the effects of pain, and its anticipation, in a multi-task environment. Using a task switching paradigm participants repeated and switched between three tasks, of which one predicted the possible occurrence of pain. Half of the participants received low intensity pain (N=30) and half high intensity pain (N=30). Results showed that pain interferes with the performance of a simultaneous task, independent of the pain intensity. Furthermore pain interferes with the performance on a subsequent task. These effects are stronger with high intensity pain than with low intensity pain. Finally, and of particular importance in this study, interference of pain on a subsequent task was larger when participants switched to another task than when participants repeated the same task. PerspectiveThis article is concerned with the interruptive effect of pain on people"s task performance by using an adapted task switching paradigm. This adapted paradigm may offer unique possibilities to investigate how pain interferes with task performance while people repeat and switch between multiple tasks in a multi-task environment.

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“…Pain is an alarm signal of bodily harm, and elicits defensive or protective reactions 1,12,29,64 . Through first-hand experiences, we learn to predict pain, and these signals for pain may in themselves become a source of fear and action 1,7,29,38,75 .…”

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“…Through first-hand experiences, we learn to predict pain, and these signals for pain may in themselves become a source of fear and action 1,7,29,38,75 . However, pain is rarely a private event as the sufferer's reactions to pain have the capacity to communicate pain to others 40 .…”

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Negative Emotional Responses Elicited by the Anticipation of Pain in Others: Psychophysiological Evidence

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Uzieblo

Crombez

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The Journal of Pain

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Limited evidence is available about factors influencing observers' anticipatory emotional responses to another's pain. We investigated fear and distress towards the threat of pain in others, and the moderating role of observers' psychopathic traits and catastrophizing about own or other's pain. Thirty-six dyads of healthy participants were randomly assigned to either the role of observer or observed participant. Both participants were instructed that one coloured slide (blue or yellow) signalled that a pain stimulus could possibly be delivered to the observed participant (= pain signal), whereas no pain stimulus would be delivered when a differently coloured slide was presented (= safety signal). Observers' self-reported fear, fearpotentiated startle and corrugator EMG activity during pain and safety signals were measured. Furthermore, observers rated the presence of pain after each trial allowing assessment of observers' perceptual sensitivity to other's pain. Results indicated that selfreported fear, fear-potentiated startle and corrugator EMG activity were augmented during pain signals compared to safety signals. Moreover, these negative emotional responses were heightened in observers highly catastrophizing about other's pain, but reduced in observers with heightened psychopathic traits. Psychopathic traits were also related with a diminished perceptual sensitivity to other's pain. The results are discussed in light of affectivemotivational perspectives on pain.

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The sensory-discriminative and affective-motivational aspects of pain

Cited by 193 publications

References 66 publications

Impact of parental catastrophizing and contextual threat on parents’ emotional and behavioral responses to their child’s pain

Impact of parental catastrophizing and contextual threat on parents’ emotional and behavioral responses to their child’s pain

The Interruptive Effect of Pain in a Multitask Environment: An Experimental Investigation

Negative Emotional Responses Elicited by the Anticipation of Pain in Others: Psychophysiological Evidence

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