ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2015
Childhood adversities and laboratory pain perception.
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- Peritraumatic Pain in Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Literature Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Child maltreatment and depression: A meta-analysis of studies using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.Child abuse & neglect · 2020Pooled it
- Modulation of pain by affective touch: effects of childhood trauma, depression, chronic pain, and spinal segment.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- The Negative Effect of Social Discrimination on Pain Tolerance and the Moderating Role of Pain Catastrophizing.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Article
- Trauma-related disorders and the bodily self: current perspectives and future directions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Induced negative arousal modulates the speed of visual working memory consolidation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Article
- Characterizing Pain and Generalized Sensory Sensitivity According to Trauma History Among Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Childhood Trauma, Emotion Regulation, and Pain in Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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- Early life stress perturbs the function of microglia in the developing rodent brain: New insights and future challenges.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2018Review
- Serum profile changes in postpartum women with a history of childhood maltreatment: a combined metabolite and lipid fingerprinting study.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Childhood adversity has frequently been related to a wide range of psychosomatic complaints in adulthood. The present study examined the relationship between different forms of childhood adversity and laboratory measures of pain. Heat pain tolerance and perceived heat pain intensity were measured in a community-based sample of 62 women (aged 20-64 years). Participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), which assesses five forms of childhood adversity: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect. Somatic symptoms, depressive symptoms, and pain catastrophizing were assessed as potential mediators. Bivariate analyses indicated that emotional abuse but no other forms of childhood adversity were significantly related to decreased heat pain tolerance (r=-0.27; P<0.05). Accordingly, multiple regression analyses revealed that only emotional abuse was a significant predictor of heat pain tolerance (β=-0.62; P=0.034) when entering all CTQ subscales simultaneously. Although emotional abuse was also related to somatic symptoms, depressive symptoms, and pain catastrophizing, none of these variables mediated the relationship between childhood adversity and laboratory pain (P>0.1). No significant associations were found between any forms of childhood adversity and heat pain intensity. Our findings indicate that the severity of emotional childhood abuse is associated with decreased pain tolerance, an affective component of pain, but not with heat pain intensity, which has been described as a sensory component of pain.
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