ArticleFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2023
Emotional arousal and valence in patients with fibromyalgia: a pilot study.
Article in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Management of Juvenile Fibromyalgia: A Level I Evidence-Based Systematic Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- When emotions hurt: negative interpretations of bodily signals and interoceptive difficulties in fibromyalgia.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Inside the Fire. Exploring the Impact of Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Disturbances on Pain Perception in Burning Mouth Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study of 200 Patients.Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology · 2025Article
- Personality Assessment Inventory in Fibromyalgia: Links to Functional, Physical-Somatic, and Emotional Impact.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Exploring Neural Signaling Patterns and Their Physiological Origins in Fibromyalgia by Means of Functional MRI Guided by a Review of the Literature.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
The pathogenesis of pain in fibromyalgia is still not completely understood. A disrupted emotional modulation could affect the physiology of nociception and contributes to an altered perception of pain. The aim of this study was to test the role of emotional arousal and valence in pain susceptibility in fibromyalgia using the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) paradigm and the Fibromyalgia Severity Scale (FSS). The study focused on comparing emotional arousal and valence between patients with fibromyalgia and the control group. The secondary objective was to examine the correlation between emotional indices and scores on the FSS and the duration of the disease. The 20 patients with fibromyalgia enrolled showed a higher mean arousal score for all the stimuli, including a higher score for unpleasant and socially unpleasant stimuli. The valence scores for social-relevant stimuli were also higher. Increased arousal to unpleasant and socially unpleasant images and increased valence of them correlated with the duration of the disease and the severity of symptoms and could reflect impairment in social cognition and marked sensitivity to pain in interaction with central nociceptive dysregulation.
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