The present work contributed to our understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying pain modulation through sensory, attentional, emotional and cognitive processes. We used subjective, behavioral, and electrophysiological indexes to reveal the effects of body position, emotions, placebo expectations and cognitive reappraisal on subjective pain experience and pain-related somatosensory potentials. Four studies were conducted to investigate different forms of pain modulation. Study 1 tested the hypothesis that the horizontal body position reduces pain perception and cortical pain processing. We demonstrated that the supine vs. sitting body position was associated with dampened perception of non-painful stimuli and inhibited cortical...
Context The perception of pain due to an acute injury or in clinical pain states undergoes substant...
Pain catastrophising is an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipa...
This study evaluates the modulation of phasic pain and empathy for pain induced by placebo analgesia...
Pain perception is highly dependant on the conscious state of the individual and the meaning of the ...
The intensity and unpleasantness of a painful experience is often described as correlating well with...
The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and beliefs tha...
Pain is a complex and multidimensional experience, which is subjective for an individual and modulat...
This dissertation presents three experiments designed to demonstrate the effects of cognitive, emoti...
Placebos do not possess any direct pharmacological method of action, however placebo treatment has b...
The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and beliefs tha...
The brain is the principal processor of internal and external sensory experiences including pain. Pa...
Little evidence exists to confirm whether the sensory-related neural activity that occurs when obser...
Past studies indicate that the placebo expectation established by analgesic treatment significantly ...
According to the motivational priming hypothesis, unpleasant stimuli activate the motivational defen...
AbstractMental imagery has the potential to influence perception by directly altering sensory, cogni...
Context The perception of pain due to an acute injury or in clinical pain states undergoes substant...
Pain catastrophising is an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipa...
This study evaluates the modulation of phasic pain and empathy for pain induced by placebo analgesia...
Pain perception is highly dependant on the conscious state of the individual and the meaning of the ...
The intensity and unpleasantness of a painful experience is often described as correlating well with...
The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and beliefs tha...
Pain is a complex and multidimensional experience, which is subjective for an individual and modulat...
This dissertation presents three experiments designed to demonstrate the effects of cognitive, emoti...
Placebos do not possess any direct pharmacological method of action, however placebo treatment has b...
The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and beliefs tha...
The brain is the principal processor of internal and external sensory experiences including pain. Pa...
Little evidence exists to confirm whether the sensory-related neural activity that occurs when obser...
Past studies indicate that the placebo expectation established by analgesic treatment significantly ...
According to the motivational priming hypothesis, unpleasant stimuli activate the motivational defen...
AbstractMental imagery has the potential to influence perception by directly altering sensory, cogni...
Context The perception of pain due to an acute injury or in clinical pain states undergoes substant...
Pain catastrophising is an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipa...
This study evaluates the modulation of phasic pain and empathy for pain induced by placebo analgesia...