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ArticleBritish journal of pain2020

Interrelations between pain, stress and executive functioning.

Liviu Feller, Gal Feller, Theona Ballyram, Rakesh Chandran, Johan Lemmer, Razia Abdool Gafaar Khammissa

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Article in British journal of pain, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 49% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Liviu FellerDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.
Gal FellerDepartment of Anatomical Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Theona BallyramDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Rakesh ChandranDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.
Johan LemmerDepartment of Periodontology and Oral Medicine, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.
Razia Abdool Gafaar KhammissaDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Oral and Dental Hospital, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5221-7805
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University · ZAUniversity of Pretoria · ZAUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThe purpose of this narrative review is to discuss the interrelations between pain, stress and executive functions. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Self-regulation, through executive functioning, exerts control over cognition, emotion and behaviour. The reciprocal neural functional connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system allows for the integration of cognitive and emotional neural pathways and then for higher-order psychological processes (reasoning, judgement etc.) to generate goal-directed adaptive behaviours and to regulate responses to psychosocial stressors and pain signals. Impairment in cognitive executive functioning may result in poor regulation of stress-, pain- and emotion-related processing of information. Conversely, adverse emotion, pain and stress impair executive functioning. The characteristic of the feedback and feedforward neural connections (quantity and quality) between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system determine adaptive behaviour, stress response and pain experience.

Indexed as

Chronic painexecutive functioningneural connectionspain experiencepsychosocial stressorsstress response

Identifiers

PMID32922780
PMCPMC7453485
OpenAlexW2991400365

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