Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30254484›Full record

ArticleJournal of pain research2018

Visually induced analgesia during face or limb stimulation in healthy and migraine subjects.

Simona Liliana Sava, Victor de Pasqua, Alain Maertens de Noordhout, Jean Schoenen

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

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

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 86% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simona Liliana SavaHeadache Clinic of Valdor - ISOSL, Liège, Belgium, simonaliliana.sava@gmail.com.
Victor de PasquaHeadache Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.
Alain Maertens de NoordhoutHeadache Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.
Jean SchoenenHeadache Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.
University of Liège · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVisually induced analgesia (VIA) defines a phenomenon in which viewing one's own body part during its painful stimulation decreases the perception of pain. VIA occurs during direct vision of the stimulated body part and also when seeing it reflected in a mirror. To the best of our knowledge, VIA has not been studied in the trigeminal area, where it could be relevant for the control of headache. SUBJECTS AND

methodsWe used heat stimuli (53°C) to induce pain in the right forehead or wrist in 11 healthy subjects (HSs) and 14 female migraine without aura (MO) patients between attacks. The subjects rated pain on a visual analog scale (VAS) and underwent contact heat-evoked potential (CHEP) recordings (five sequential blocks of four responses) with or without observation of their face/wrist in a mirror.

resultsDuring wrist stimulation, amplitude of the first block of P1-P2 components of CHEPs decreased compared to that in the control recording when HSs were seeing their wrist reflected in the mirror (

conclusionThis study adds to the available knowledge on VIA and demonstrates this phenomenon for painful stimuli in the trigeminal area, as long as CHEPs are used as indices of central pain processing. In migraine patients during interictal periods, VIA assessed with CHEPs is within normal limits in the face but absent at the wrist, possibly reflecting dysfunctioning of extracephalic pain control.

Indexed as

CHEPsmigrainemirror therapypainvisionvisually induced analgesia

Identifiers

PMID30254484
PMCPMC6140700
OpenAlexW2891368621

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.