A5059371448- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Color perception and design
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Sports Performance and Training
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Technology and Human Factors in Education and Health
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
KU Leuven
2023-2024
Abstract Social support has been shown to reduce pain ratings and physiological responses acute stimuli. Furthermore, this relationship is moderated by adult attachment styles. However, these effects have not characterized in experimentally induced symptoms of chronic pain, such as secondary hyperalgesia (SH) which an increased sensitivity the skin surrounding injury. We aimed examine whether social handholding from a romantic partner can attenuate development SH. Thirty-seven women, along...
Abstract Pain perception is a dynamic and time-varying phenomenon. The high temporal resolution of electroencephalography (EEG) can be leveraged to gain insight into its cortical dynamics. Electroencephalography microstate analysis novel technique that parses multichannel EEG signals limited number quasi-stable topographies (microstates) have meaningful structure been linked the activity resting state networks. In recent years, several studies investigated alterations in parameters...
Background. Increased mechanical sensitivity of uninjured skin surrounding a cutaneous injury is sign central sensitisation and can be induced in healthy individuals using high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFS). However, the role negative expectations developing hypersensitivity remains unclear. One prior study suggested that informing participants via written instructions HFS would increase led to more compared control group. This aimed replicate those findings extend investigation...
Increased mechanical sensitivity of uninjured skin surrounding a cutaneous tissue injury, is considered manifestation central sensitization and can be induced in healthy volunteers using high frequency electrical stimulation (HFS). Little evidence exists on the effect negative expectations development hypersensitivity. Here, we aimed to replicate extend findings only study which found that increased extent hypersensitivity after HFS. Sixty participants were randomised control or nocebo group...
A recent publication by Gousset et al. (2023) in Clinical Neurophysiology, investigated if experimentally-induced mechanical pinprick hypersensitivity, elicited applying high-frequency electrical stimulation onto the skin (HFS), is associated with increases pinprick-induced scalp-recorded EEG gamma-band oscillations (GBOs). They found this not to be case. However, one could argue that some choices made preprocessing steps might have affected results, resulting a type II error. In...
Various forms of social support have been evidenced to diminish acute pain ratings and modulate physiological responses stimuli, with adult attachment styles moderating this effect. However, only one study date has examined the impact context (using a hand-holding intervention by romantic partner) on experimentally induced secondary mechanical hypersensitivity, common symptom chronic pain. Here, we aimed discern whether structured verbal from stranger, situation that perhaps better...
Mechanical hypersensitivity, a common symptom of neuropathic pain, reflects increased responsiveness nociceptive pathways and can be induced temporarily in healthy volunteers using high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFS) the skin. Expectations modulate acute pain perception fear has been shown to attenuate amplify placebo nocebo effects respectively. However, role expectations development mechanical hypersensitivity remains unclear. The modulatory so far mainly correlational. Here, we...
Pain perception is a dynamic and time-varying phenomenon. The high temporal resolution of electroencephalography (EEG) can be leveraged to gain insight into its time varying cortical dynamics. EEG microstate analysis novel technique that parses multi-channel signals limited number quasi-stable topographies (microstates) have meaningful structure been linked the activity canonical resting state networks. In recent years, several studies investigated alterations in parameters associated with...
Background. Increased mechanical sensitivity of uninjured skin surrounding a cutaneous injury is sign central sensitisation and can be induced in healthy individuals using high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFS). However, the role negative expectations developing hypersensitivity remains unclear. One prior study suggested that informing participants via written instructions HFS would increase led to more compared control group. This aimed replicate those findings extend investigation...
Social support has been shown to reduce pain ratings and physiological responses acute stimuli. Further, this relationship is moderated by adult attachment styles. However, these effects have not characterized in experimentally induced symptoms of chronic pain, like Secondary Hyperalgesia (SH) which an increased sensitivity the skin surrounding injury. We aimed examine whether social via handholding from a romantic partner can attenuate development SH. Thirty-seven women, along with their...