ArticleExperimental dermatology2019
What is new in the psychology of chronic itch?
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- Breaking the vicious cycle: a bibliometric and visual analysis of the bidirectional relationship between pruritus and negative emotions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Attentiveness and mental health in adolescents with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis without ADHD.Archives of dermatological research · 2024Observational
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- Annexin 1 Reduces Dermatitis-Induced Itch and Cholestatic Itch through Inhibiting Neuroinflammation and Iron Overload in the Spinal Dorsal Horn of Mice.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The Psychology of Atopic Dermatitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Subliminal attentional bias modification training for itch.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Induction and generalization of nocebo effects on itch.Experimental dermatology · 2022Article
- Attentional Bias Modification Training for Itch: A Proof-of-Principle Study in Healthy Individuals.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Attentional Bias Towards Visual Itch and Pain Stimuli in Itch- and Pain-free Individuals?Acta dermato-venereologica · 2020Article
- Optimizing audiovisual itch induction: the role of attention and expectancy.The British journal of dermatology · 2020Article
- Development and psychometrics of the English version of the Itch Cognitions Questionnaire.PloS one · 2020Article
- What is new in the psychology of chronic itch?Experimental dermatology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Itch is often regarded as unpleasant or bothersome and is accompanied by symptoms of distress and impairments in daily life. The biopsychosocial model of chronic itch describes how psychological factors can contribute to the improvement or exacerbation of chronic itch and related scratching behaviour. Recent research underlines the important role of cognitive-affective information processing, such as attention, affect and expectancies. This may not only play a role for acute itch states, but may particularly apply to the process of itch chronification, for example, due to the vicious cycle in which these factors shape the experience of itch. The present paper focuses on new insights into the relation between itch and the cognitive-affective factors of attention, affect and expectancies. These factors are thought to play a possible aggravating role in itch in the long term and have received increasing attention in the recent empirical literature on maintaining and exacerbating factors for chronic physical symptoms. Possible psychophysiological and neurobiological pathways regarding these factors are discussed, as well as possible intervention methods.
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