止痛药
体感系统
心理学
注意
前额叶皮质
止痛
医学
神经科学
认知心理学
认知
心理治疗师
麻醉
精神科
作者
Dongho Kim,Choong‐Wan Woo,Seong‐Gi Kim
出处
期刊:Pain
[Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer)]
日期:2021-08-23
卷期号:163 (6): 1130-1138
被引量:6
标识
DOI:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002464
摘要
A commonly held belief suggests that turning one's attention away from pain reduces it, whereas paying attention to pain increases it. However, some attention-based therapeutic strategies for pain, such as mindfulness-based interventions, suggest that paying attention to painful stimuli can reduce pain, resulting in seemingly contradictory conclusions regarding attention and pain. Here, we investigated the analgesic effects of attention modulation and provide behavioral and neural evidence that paying attention to pain can reduce pain when attention is directed toward the specific features of painful stimuli. The analgesic effects of paying attention to painful stimuli were mediated by the primary somatosensory cortex and goal-directed attention regions in the prefrontal and parietal cortex. These findings suggest that suppressing early somatosensory processing through top-down modulation is the key mechanism of the analgesic effects of paying attention to painful stimuli, providing evidence that pain itself can be used as a component of pain management.
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