ArticlePain medicine (Malden, Mass.)2015
Nonlinear Effects of Noxious Thermal Stimulation and Working Memory Demands on Subjective Pain Perception.
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- Performance of healthy persons under pain in different cognitive load tasks: An event-related potential study on experimental pain individuals.Brain and behavior · 2020Trial
- Prediction of Patient Satisfaction after Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain with Mulligan's Mobilization.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Neutral auditory words immediately followed by painful electric shock may show reduced next-day recollection.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Test-Retest Reliability of an Adaptive Thermal Pain Calibration Procedure in Healthy Volunteers.The journal of pain · 2022Article
- Comparison between the Impacts of Memory and Arithmetic-Based Dual Tasks on Physical Performance in Women with Fibromyalgia.Biology · 2022Article
- Working Memory Performance, Pain and Associated Clinical Variables in Women With Fibromyalgia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- An incremental dual-task paradigm to investigate pain attenuation by task difficulty, affective content and threat value.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveA bidirectional relationship between working memory (WM) and acute pain has long been assumed, but equivocal evidence exists regarding this relationship. This study characterized the relationship between WM and acute pain processing in healthy individuals using an adapted Sternberg WM task.
designParticipants completed a Sternberg task while receiving noxious thermal stimulation. Participants received a pseudorandom presentation of four different temperatures (baseline temperatures and individually determined low-, medium-, and high-temperature stimuli) and four levels of Sternberg task difficulty (0-, 3-, 6-, and 9-letter strings). SUBJECTS: Twenty-eight healthy participants were recruited from Stanford University and the surrounding community to complete this study.
resultsA nonlinear interaction between intensity of thermal stimulation and difficulty of the Sternberg task was noted. Increased cognitive load from the Sternberg task resulted in increased perception of pain in low-intensity thermal stimulation but suppressed pain perception in high-intensity thermal stimulation. Thermal stimulation had no significant effect on participants' response time or accuracy on the Sternberg task regardless of intensity level.
conclusionsPain perception appears to decrease as a function of WM load only for sufficiently noxious stimuli. However, increasing noxious stimuli did not affect cognitive performance. These complex relationships may reflect a shared cognitive space that can become "overloaded" with input of multiple stimuli of sufficient intensity.
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