ArticleThe journal of headache and pain2017
Lower inhibitory control interacts with greater pain catastrophizing to predict greater pain intensity in women with migraine and overweight/obesity.
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- Regional and whole-brain neurofunctional alterations during pain empathic processing of physical but not affective pain in migraine patients.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Role of Psychological Factors in Migraine.Cureus · 2024Review
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- Decline in attentional inhibition among migraine patients: an event-related potential study using the Stroop task.The journal of headache and pain · 2021Article
- Anxiety, Depression, and Body Weight in Children and Adolescents With Migraine.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A systematic review of structural and functional MRI studies on pain catastrophizing.Journal of pain research · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPain catastrophizing (PC) is associated with more severe and disabling migraine attacks. However, factors that moderate this relationship are unknown. Failure of inhibitory control (IC), or the ability to suppress automatic or inappropriate responses, may be one such factor given previous research showing a relationship between higher PC and lower IC in non-migraine samples, and research showing reduced IC in migraine. Therefore, we examined whether lower IC interacts with increased PC to predict greater migraine severity as measured by pain intensity, attack frequency, and duration.
methodsWomen (n = 105) aged 18-50 years old (M = 38.0 ± 1.2) with overweight/obesity and migraine who were seeking behavioral treatment for weight loss and migraine reduction completed a 28-day smartphone-based headache diary assessing migraine headache severity. Participants then completed a modified computerized Stroop task as a measure of IC and self-report measures of PC (Pain Catastrophizing Scale [PCS]), anxiety, and depression. Linear regression was used to examine independent and joint associations of PC and IC with indices of migraine severity after controlling for age, body mass index (BMI) depression, and anxiety.
resultsParticipants on average had BMI of 35.1 ± 6.5 kg/m
conclusionsResults showed that lower IC interacted with higher PC, both overall and specific subcomponents, to predict higher pain intensity during migraine attacks. Future studies are needed to determine whether interventions to improve IC could lead to less painful migraine attacks via improvements in PC.
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