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ArticlePeerJ2018

Do patients with chronic unilateral orofacial pain due to a temporomandibular disorder show increased attending to somatosensory input at the painful side of the jaw?

Stefaan Van Damme, Charlotte Vanden Bulcke, Linda Van Den Berghe, Louise Poppe, Geert Crombez

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Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Stefaan Van DammeDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Charlotte Vanden BulckeDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Linda Van Den BergheDepartment of Dentistry, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Louise PoppeDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Geert CrombezDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Ghent University · BEGhent University Hospital · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients with chronic orofacial pain due to temporomandibular disorders (TMD) display alterations in somatosensory processing at the jaw, such as amplified perception of tactile stimuli, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated one possible explanation, namely hypervigilance, and tested if TMD patients with unilateral pain showed increased attending to somatosensory input at the painful side of the jaw.

methodsTMD patients with chronic unilateral orofacial pain (

resultsTMD patients tended to perceive tactile stimuli at the painful jaw side as occurring earlier in time than stimuli at the non-painful side but this effect did not reach conventional levels of significance ( DISCUSSION: The hypothesis that TMD patients with chronic unilateral orofacial pain preferentially attend to somatosensory information at the painful side of the jaw was not statistically supported, although lack of power could not be ruled out as a reason for this. The findings are discussed within recent theories of pain-related attention.

Indexed as

Attentional biasChronic painHypervigilanceOrofacial painSomatosensory processingSpatial attentionTemporal order judgementTMD

Identifiers

PMID29379693
PMCPMC5786881
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