ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Brain Processing of Contagious Itch in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis.
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- Association between Atopic Dermatitis and Dementia: Evidence from Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Mendelian Randomization.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2025Pooled it
- Breaking the vicious cycle: a bibliometric and visual analysis of the bidirectional relationship between pruritus and negative emotions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Central neural circuits underlying itch sensation.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- The Neuroimmune Axis in Atopic Dermatitis: From Pathogenic Mechanisms to Targeted Neuroimmunotherapy.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Review
- The neuroscience of itch in relation to transdiagnostic psychological approaches.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Psychology of Atopic Dermatitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Neural Biomarkers for Identifying Atopic Dermatitis and Assessing Acupuncture Treatment Response Using Resting-State fMRI.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2024Article
- Increased Risk of Dementia in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2023Article
- Can contagious itch be affected by positive and negative suggestions?Experimental dermatology · 2022Article
- Contagious Itch, Disgust and Empathy in a Family with Scabies and their Treating Medical Staff: An Exploratory Study.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2022Article
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications in Dermatology.JID innovations : skin science from molecules to population health · 2021Article
- Neural Oscillation Associated with Contagious Itch in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Itch Matrixes.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- A Negative Association of Hypothalamic Volume and Perceived Stress in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2020Article
- What is new in the psychology of chronic itch?Experimental dermatology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Several studies show that itch and scratching cannot only be induced by pruritogens like histamine or cowhage, but also by the presentation of certain (audio-) visual stimuli like pictures on crawling insects or videos showing other people scratching. This phenomenon is coined "Contagious itch" (CI). Due to the fact that CI is more profound in patients with the chronic itchy skin disease atopic dermatitis (AD), we believe that it is highly relevant to study brain processing of CI in this group. Knowledge on brain areas involved in CI in AD-patients can provide us with useful hints regarding non-invasive treatments that AD-patients could profit from when they are confronted with itch-inducing situations in daily life. Therefore, this study investigated the brain processing of CI in AD-patients. 11 AD-patients underwent fMRI scans during the presentation of an itch inducing experimental video (EV) and a non-itch inducing control video (CV). Perfusion based brain activity was measured using arterial spin labeling functional MRI. As expected, the EV compared to the CV led to an increase in itch and scratching (
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