The association of spouse interactions and emotional learning in interference related to chronic back pain.

ABSTRACT: Social interactions affect individual behaviours, preferences, and attitudes. This is also critical in the context of experiencing pain and expressing pain behaviours, and may relate to learned emotional responses. In this respect, individual variability in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), which is involved in adjusting an organism's behaviour to its environment by evaluating and interpreting information within the context of past experiences, is important. It is critical for selecting suitable behavioural responses within a social environment and may reinforce maladaptation in chronic pain. In our study, we used brain imaging during appetitive and aversive pavlovian conditioning in persons with chronic back pain (CBP), subacute back pain (SABP), and healthy controls (HC), together wit

SUBMITTER: Nees F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996357 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature