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Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Presenting a sham treatment as personalised increases the placebo effect in a randomised controlled trial.eLife · 2023Trial
- Contralateral Thermal Pain and Naturally Occurring Muscle Pain Have Different Effects on Force Production During a Fixed Perceived Effort Handgrip Task.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Understanding Motor Adaptation in the Transition to Sustained Pain: Protocol for a Longitudinal Experimental Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- The Effect of Thermal Pain on Working Memory: Behavioral Evidence from the n-Back Task.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Eye-tracking control of an adjustable electric bed: construction and validation by immobile patients with multiple sclerosis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Pain and Motor Function in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Thalamocortical Mechanisms for Nostalgia-Induced Analgesia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Better Executive Functions Are Associated With More Efficient Cognitive Pain Modulation in Older Adults: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of Brief Mindfulness Interventions on the Interference Induced by Experimental Heat Pain on Cognition in Healthy Individuals.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The main function of pain is to automatically draw attention towards sources of potential injury. However, pain sometimes needs to be inhibited in order to address or pursue more relevant tasks. Elucidating the factors that influence how people manage this relationship between pain and task performance is essential to understanding the disruptive nature of pain and its variability between individuals. Here, 41 healthy adults completed a challenging working memory task (2-back task) while receiving painful thermal stimulations. Examining the trial-by-trial relationship between pain perception and task performance revealed that pain's disruptive effects on performance were mediated by self-reported pain intensity, and that the analgesic effects of a competing task were influenced by task performance. We found that higher pain catastrophizing, higher trait anxiety, and lower trait mindfulness were associated with larger trade-offs between pain perception and task performance, suggesting that these psychological factors can predict increased fluctuations between disruption by pain and analgesia from a competing task. Altogether these findings provide an important and novel perspective on our understanding of individual differences in the interplay between pain and ongoing task performance.
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