谷氨酸受体
脑岛
心理学
边缘型人格障碍
听力学
内科学
医学
临床心理学
麻醉
神经科学
受体
作者
Tobias Gradinger,Markus Sack,Vita Cardinale,Margot Thiacourt,Ulf Baumgärtner,Christian Schmahl,Gabriele Ende
出处
期刊:Pain
[Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer)]
日期:2019-06-05
卷期号:160 (11): 2487-2496
被引量:7
标识
DOI:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001641
摘要
Abstract This study aimed to investigate whether the differences in pain perception between patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy subjects (HCs) can be explained by differences in the glutamate/GABA ratio in the posterior insula. In total, 29 BPD patients and 31 HCs were included in the statistical analysis. Mechanical pain sensitivity was experimentally assessed with pinprick stimuli between 32 and 512 mN on a numeric rating scale. The metabolites were measured in the right posterior insula using the MEshcher–GArwood Point-RESolved Spectroscopy sequence for single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS). The 256- and the 512-mN pinprick stimuli were perceived as significantly less painful by the BPD patient group compared with HCs. No differences were found between groups for the glutamate/GABA ratios. A positive correlation between the glutamate/GABA ratio and the pain intensity ratings to 256- and 512-mN pinpricks could be found in the combined and in the HC group. In the BPD patient group, the correlations between the glutamate/GABA ratio and the pain intensity ratings to 256- and 512-mN pinpricks did not reach significance. In conclusion, the study showed that individual differences in pain perception may in part be explained by the individual glutamate/GABA ratio in the posterior insula. However, this possible mechanism does not explain the differences in pain perception between BPD patients and HCs.
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