ObjectiveThe primary symptom of fibromyalgia is chronic, widespread pain; however, patients report additional symptoms including decreased concentration and memory. Performance-based deficits are seen mainly in tests working memory executive functioning. It has been hypothesized that pain interferes with cognitive performance; the neural correlates this interference still a matter debate. In previous, cross-sectional study, we reported (as compared healthy controls) showed blood oxygen level...

Exogenous or automatic attention to emotional distractors has been observed for scenes and faces. In the language domain, however, capture by words scarcely investigated. current event-related potentials study we explored distractor effects elicited positive, negative neutral in a concurrent but distinct target paradigm. Specifically, participants performed digit categorization task which task-irrelevant were flanked numbers. The results of both temporo-spatial principal component source...

One of the major cognitive deficits in fibromyalgia has been linked to hypervigilance phenomenon. It is mainly reflected as a negative bias for allocating attentional resources towards both threatening and pain-related information. Although interest its study recently grown, neural temporal dynamics still remains an open question.Fifty participants (25 patients 25 healthy control subjects) performed dot-probe task. Two types facial expressions (pain-related neutral) were employed signal...

This study set to explore whether variables related cognitive-affective assets would complement measures of psychological vulnerability for the prediction physical functioning and pain tolerance in 138 women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). Depression, anxiety, stress response negative affect were defined a priori as vulnerability, while self-efficacy, internality positive identified assets. Confirmatory factor analyses supported validity hypothesised two-factor structure FMS. A structural...

Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia has become a key symptom considered by patients as more disabling than pain itself. Experimental evidence from neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies indicates that such cognitive impairments are especially robust when need to set motion working memory processes, suggesting the existence of an altered functioning underlying cerebral cortices frontoparietal network. However, temporal dynamics subprocesses have not yet been explored...

A large number of publications have focused on the study pain expressions. Despite growing knowledge, availability pain-related face databases is still very scarce compared with other emotional facial The Pain E-Motion Faces Database (PEMF) a new open-access database currently consisting 272 micro-clips 68 different identities. Each model displays one neutral expression and three expressions: posed, spontaneous-algometer spontaneous-CO2 laser. Normative ratings intensity, valence arousal...

Previous research has shown a consistent association among genetic factors, psychological symptoms and pain associated with fibromyalgia. However, how these interact to moderate factors in fibromyalgia rarely been studied date. The present investigates whether can the effects of catechol-O-methyltransferase on fatigue. A total 108 women diagnosed 77 healthy control participants took part study. Pain, fatigue, (anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, fear movement) were measured by self-report...

Pain perception arises from a complex interaction between nociceptive stimulus and different emotional cognitive factors, which appear to be mediated by both automatic controlled systems. Previous evidence has shown that whereas conscious processing of unpleasant stimuli enhances pain perception, influences on under unaware conditions are much less known. The aim the present study was investigate modulation unconscious pictures through an masking paradigm. Two kinds somatosensory (painful...

Pain experience involves a complex relationship between sensory and both emotional cognitive factors, which appear to be mediated by different neural pathways. Previous evidence has shown that whereas conscious processing of unpleasant stimuli enhances pain perception, the influence emotions on under unaware conditions is much less known. The need better characterise factors crucial for dealing with chronic conditions. Therefore, present study aimed explore correlates relating visual masking...

Growing research has reported the presence of a clear impairment working memory functioning in fibromyalgia. Although different genetic factors involving dopamine availability (i.e, COMT gene) have been associated with more severe presentation key symptoms fibromyalgia, scientific evidence regarding influence genotypes on cognitive these patients is still lacking. To this end, 167 participants took part present investigation. Working performance was assessed by application SST (Spatial Span...

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Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by dysfunctional processing of nociceptive stimulation. Neuroimaging studies have pointed out that pain-related network functioning seems to be altered in these patients. It thought this clinical symptomatology may maintained or even strengthened because an enhanced expectancy for painful stimuli its forthcoming appearance. However, neural electrophysiological correlates associated with such attentional mechanisms been scarcely explored....

Recent findings have associated different COMT genotypes with working memory capacity in patients fibromyalgia. Although it is thought that the gene may influence neural correlates (P2 and P3 ERP components) underlying impairment this chronic-pain syndrome, has not yet been explored. Therefore, aim of present research was to investigate potential effect fibromyalgia on indices components). For purpose, 102 participants (51 51 healthy control participants) took part experiment. Event-related...

<h3>Background</h3> Distinct experimental studies have been conducted in persons with chronic pain order to explore possible attentional bias towards related stimuli. One of the most applied paradigms, this context, is emotional stroop task which words different content are presented subjects (Andersson &amp; Haldrup, 2003). This appears as a relevant tool investigate role mechanisms modulation resources conditions (Asmundson, Wright Hadjistavropoulos, 2005). <h3>Objectives</h3> Explore and...

<h3>Background</h3> Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by the presence of pain, fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, among other symptoms. Previous research (Duschek et al., 2014) also indicated that patients show an hypervigilance pattern to pain negative information interferes with processing events capturing attention resources generating difficulties. This seems be dependent automatic processes. Duschek collaborators (2013) first evidence disruption associated processes...

<h3>Background</h3> Fibromyalgia constitutes a chronic pain syndrome that has been also characterized by an altered cortical processing of emotional stimulation (Montoya et al., 2005). Furthermore, several studies have indicated such dysfunction in the could be related to presence attentional biases towards threat-related information (Duscheck 2014). However, little is known about neural correlates time course fibromyalgia and their clinical significance. <h3>Objectives</h3> To explore early...