Pain is what you think: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence toward a cognitive and affective approach for pain research
Jocelyn M. Powers, Elena Koning, Gabriela Ioachim, Patrick W. Stroman · 2024
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Jocelyn Powers and co-authors scan brains to show how thought and feeling shape pain, in this 2024 study. Pain research often stresses the sensory side, yet pain is a personal event colored by life history. Nineteen healthy adults received warm and hot stimuli during brain scans, rating intensity and unpleasantness each round. The team compared network connections across the two stimulus types.
Ratings confirmed the hot stimuli hurt more, yet whole-brain connectivity looked much the same across conditions. Individual differences told the subtler story. For mild warmth, connectivity gaps sat in sensory and association areas. For pain, they sat in thinking, feeling, and body-control regions. The authors argue pain perception rides on mental and autonomic state, not just signal strength from the skin.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jocelyn M. Powers, Elena Koning, Gabriela Ioachim, Patrick W. Stroman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |