Aantekeningen lecture 3
Reciprocal interactions between emotion, cognition and pain
Vicious circle.
Pain and emotions increase each other.
Feedback system
Attentional modulation of pain
Distraction
Using VR (snow world) on extreme burning injuries reduces pain
Less pain in VR conditions than control condition
Cross-modal Attention
Smelling different odors & thermal heat pain simultaneously
Focus on the odor or focus on the pain.
Focusing on the odor (attention) reported less pain.
Attention has a strong effect on pain perception
Attention modulates pain processing in primary somatosensory cortex (S1)
, When participants pay attention to the pain stimuli, S1 lights up more than when they pay
attention to an auditory task.
Attentional effects of pain
Pain grabs attentional processing resources, reduces visual processing of faces.
Visual perception is massively lowered when we feel pain at the same time.
Summary
Distraction reduces pain
Attention away from pain reduces pain, attention towards pain ehancens pain (mainly the
sensory component)
Main target brain areas: sensory pain system (S1, S2)
Pain has a strong hold on attention: reduction of other sensory processes.
Emotional modulation
Affective odors
(neutral, pleasant, unpleasant)
Reduction of pain perception when pleasant odor
Enhancemant of pain perception when unpleasant odor
Only for women
Affective music
(silence, pleasant, unpleasant)
Painful thermal heat stimuli
reduction of pain perception with pleasant music
Enhancement of pain perception with unpleasant
music
Pain perception is highest in silent condition
Emotional modulation of pain on subjective,
physiological and motor level.
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