Subliminal emotional pictures are capable of modulating early cerebral responses to pain in fibromyalgia.

ABSTRACT: Pain experience involves a complex relationship between sensory and both emotional and cognitive factors, which appear to be mediated by different neural pathways. Previous evidence has shown that whereas conscious processing of unpleasant stimuli enhances pain perception, the influence of emotions on pain under unaware conditions is much less known. The need to better characterise the relationship between pain processing and emotional factors is crucial for dealing with chronic pain conditions. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore the neural correlates relating to the influence of visual masking emotional stimulation on the processing of painful stimuli in chronic pain patients suffering from fibromyalgia (FM). Twenty FM and 22 healthy control (HC) women participated in the study

SUBMITTER: Pelaez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6550399 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature