ReviewJournal of pain research2019
Does experimentally induced pain affect attention? A meta-analytical review.
Review in Journal of pain research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Attentional control moderates the relationship between pain catastrophizing and selective attention to pain faces on the antisaccade task.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Investigating Effects of Cold Water Hand Immersion on Selective Attention in Normobaric Hypoxia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
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- An Ecologically Valid Experimental Model for Repeated Evoked Pain Using a Wearable Device in Pain-Free Individuals: A Pilot Feasibility Study.Pain research & management · 2026Article
- Tactile perception and tolerability thresholds of TMS characterized by intensity across locations and frequencies.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2026Article
- Impact of Experimentally Induced Pain on Logical Reasoning and Underlying Attention-Related Psychophysiological Mechanisms.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Excitatory neurons in the lateral parabrachial nucleus mediate the interruptive effect of inflammatory pain on a sustained attention task.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Article
- Association of Pain During the Evaluation of Delirium in Intensive Care Unit Patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies have found that clinical pain is related to cognitive impairment. However, there remains a scarcity of systematic reviews on the influence of acute pain on attention. Laboratory-induced pain is often used to simulate acute pain. The current systematic meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effect of induced-pain on three components of attention (orienting, alerting, and executive attention) in healthy subjects.
methodsA systematic search of three databases was performed. Only data from studies that administered laboratory-induced pain and that also included a control group were selected. The effects of experimental pain on orienting attention, alerting attention, and executive attention were analyzed. Two reviewers assessed the studies and extracted relevant data according to the Cochrane Collaboration and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Guidelines.
resultsEight studies were included in the meta-analysis. Orienting attention was marginally interrupted by pain under the invalid cue and marginally facilitated by pain under the valid cue condition. Performance on alerting attention was decreased by pain. Executive attention was not significantly affected by pain.
conclusionThere was moderate evidence that experimentally induced pain can produce effects on orienting and alerting attention but not on executive attention. This meta-analysis suggests that experimentally induced pain influences some aspects of attention.
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