ArticlePsychosomatic medicine
Anticipatory Effects on Perceived Pain: Associations With Development and Anxiety.
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- Multiple timescales of temporal context in risky choice: Behavioral identification and relationships to physiological arousal.PloS one · 2024Article
- Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions enhance the effect of expectations on pain perception.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
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- Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety.Neurobiology of stress · 2022Article
- A social affective neuroscience lens on placebo analgesia.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Threat-anticipatory psychophysiological response is enhanced in youth with anxiety disorders and correlates with prefrontal cortex neuroanatomy.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2021Article
- Confidence in subjective pain is predicted by reaction time during decision making.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Divergence in cortical representations of threat generalization in affective versus perceptual circuitry in childhood: Relations with anxiety.Neuropsychologia · 2020Article
- Why Unidimensional Pain Measurement Prevails in the Pediatric Acute Pain Context and What Multidimensional Self-Report Methods Can Offer.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveNaturalistic studies suggest that expectation of adverse experiences such as pain exerts particularly strong effects on anxious youth. In healthy adults, expectation influences the experience of pain. The current study uses experimental methods to compare the effects of expectation on pain among adults, healthy youth, and youth with an anxiety disorder.
methodsTwenty-three healthy adults, 20 healthy youth, and 20 youth with an anxiety disorder underwent procedures in which auditory cues were paired with noxious thermal stimulation. Through instructed conditioning, one cue predicted low-pain stimulation and the other predicted high-pain stimulation. At test, each cue was additionally followed by a single temperature calibrated to elicit medium pain ratings. We compared cue-based expectancy effects on pain across the three groups, based on cue effects on pain elicited on medium heat trials.
resultsAcross all groups, as expected, participants reported greater pain with increasing heat intensity (β = 2.29, t(41) = 29.94, p < .001). Across all groups, the critical medium temperature trials were rated as more painful in the high- relative to low-expectancy condition (β = 1.72, t(41) = 10.48, p < .001). However, no evidence of between-group differences or continuous associations with age or anxiety was observed.
conclusionsAll participants showed strong effects of expectancy on pain. No influences of development or anxiety arose. Complex factors may influence associations among anxiety, development, and pain reports in naturalistic studies. Such factors may be identified using experiments that employ more complex, yet controlled manipulations of expectancy or assess neural correlates of expectancy.
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