pain
Prefrontal engrams of long-term fear memory perpetuate pain perception
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01291-x Can erasing bad memories relieve pain? Stegemann et al. uncover the cellular basis of fear–pain interactions, reporting that fear potentiates pain via memories encoded in prefrontal engrams. Blocking these memory traces reduces chronic pain in mice.
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Fear memory engram is the mind-killer
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 06 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01292-w Stegemann et al. have unraveled a long-lasting role for fear engrams in future pain perception. Prefrontal pain and fear representations become entangled following a fearful event. As subsequent painful experiences also reactivate the fear network, silencing the fear engram alone can alleviate both tonic pain and hypersensitivity
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Virtual Reality-Based Relaxation Program on Pain Intensity, Anxiety Level in Patients to be Applied With Endoscopy
Conditions: Anxiety; PainIntervention: Other: Virtual reality glassesSponsor: Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim UniversityCompleted
Moderating effects of humanistic care and socioeconomic status on the relationship among pain intensity, psychological factors, and psychological function in adults with cancer pain from a province of China: A cross-sectional study
… Our sample comprised 123 adult inpatients with cancer pain. Demographic variables were obtained from the Hospital Information System of The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. Pain intensity, psychological factors, and psychological functions were evaluated with four scales, and humanistic care was practiced with a part of the patients by clinical pharmacists. First, univariate
Clues to the Cause of Chronic Gut Pain
A specific pathway of nerves and cells that link the gut to the brain may be responsible for chronic gut pain. Chronic gut pain is commonly associated with IBS, and mental health disorders including anxiety and depression.
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Neuropathic pain, cognitive fusion, and alexithymia in patients with multiple sclerosis: Cross‐sectional evidence for an explanatory model of anxiety symptoms
Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.