Aversive faces activate pain responsive regions in the brain

Heckel, Andreas and Rothmayr, Christoph and Rosengarth, Katharina and Hajak, Goeran and Greenlee, Mark W. and Eichhammer, Peter (2011) Aversive faces activate pain responsive regions in the brain. NEUROREPORT, 22 (11). pp. 548-553. ISSN 0959-4965,

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Abstract

Recent evidence points to an overlap in the neural systems processing pain and social distress. In this functional MRI study we focus on the possible interplay between the processing of a psychosocial stressor and somatic pain within pain responsive brain regions, the latter being identified in an independent localizer experiment. A paradigm based on emotional induction (Hariri et al., 2000, Neuroreport 11(1):43-48) was combined with moderate heat pain to yield a factorial design with factor 'pain' as somatic stressor and factor 'faces' as nonpainful psychosocial stressor. Pain responsive regions of interest in the insula, SII cortex, and thalamus were activated by the factor 'faces' to a various extent. The hemodynamic response to both factors tends to aggregate in a compressive manner in these regions. NeuroReport 22:548-553 (C) 2011 Wolters Kluwer Health vertical bar Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: SOCIAL EXCLUSION; PERCEPTION; EMOTION; ANXIETY; FMRI; METAANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; DISORDERS; AMYGDALA; CORTICES; emotion; insula; magnetic resonance imaging; pain; physiology; physiopathology
Subjects: 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology
600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2020 06:29
Last Modified: 03 Jun 2020 06:29
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/20411

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