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Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task
The main function of pain is to automatically draw attention towards sources of potential injury. However, pain sometimes needs to be inhibited in order to address or pursue more relevant tasks. Elucidating the factors that influence how people manage this relationship between pain and task performa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7732830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33311585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78653-z |
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author | Tabry, V. Vogel, T. A. Lussier, M. Brouillard, P. Buhle, J. Rainville, P. Bherer, L. Roy, M. |
author_facet | Tabry, V. Vogel, T. A. Lussier, M. Brouillard, P. Buhle, J. Rainville, P. Bherer, L. Roy, M. |
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description | The main function of pain is to automatically draw attention towards sources of potential injury. However, pain sometimes needs to be inhibited in order to address or pursue more relevant tasks. Elucidating the factors that influence how people manage this relationship between pain and task performance is essential to understanding the disruptive nature of pain and its variability between individuals. Here, 41 healthy adults completed a challenging working memory task (2-back task) while receiving painful thermal stimulations. Examining the trial-by-trial relationship between pain perception and task performance revealed that pain’s disruptive effects on performance were mediated by self-reported pain intensity, and that the analgesic effects of a competing task were influenced by task performance. We found that higher pain catastrophizing, higher trait anxiety, and lower trait mindfulness were associated with larger trade-offs between pain perception and task performance, suggesting that these psychological factors can predict increased fluctuations between disruption by pain and analgesia from a competing task. Altogether these findings provide an important and novel perspective on our understanding of individual differences in the interplay between pain and ongoing task performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-77328302020-12-14 Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task Tabry, V. Vogel, T. A. Lussier, M. Brouillard, P. Buhle, J. Rainville, P. Bherer, L. Roy, M. Sci Rep Article The main function of pain is to automatically draw attention towards sources of potential injury. However, pain sometimes needs to be inhibited in order to address or pursue more relevant tasks. Elucidating the factors that influence how people manage this relationship between pain and task performance is essential to understanding the disruptive nature of pain and its variability between individuals. Here, 41 healthy adults completed a challenging working memory task (2-back task) while receiving painful thermal stimulations. Examining the trial-by-trial relationship between pain perception and task performance revealed that pain’s disruptive effects on performance were mediated by self-reported pain intensity, and that the analgesic effects of a competing task were influenced by task performance. We found that higher pain catastrophizing, higher trait anxiety, and lower trait mindfulness were associated with larger trade-offs between pain perception and task performance, suggesting that these psychological factors can predict increased fluctuations between disruption by pain and analgesia from a competing task. Altogether these findings provide an important and novel perspective on our understanding of individual differences in the interplay between pain and ongoing task performance. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7732830/ /pubmed/33311585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78653-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Tabry, V. Vogel, T. A. Lussier, M. Brouillard, P. Buhle, J. Rainville, P. Bherer, L. Roy, M. Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title | Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title_full | Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title_fullStr | Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title_full_unstemmed | Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title_short | Inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
title_sort | inter-individual predictors of pain inhibition during performance of a competing cognitive task |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7732830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33311585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78653-z |
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