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One night of total sleep deprivation promotes a state of generalized hyperalgesia: a surrogate pain model to study the relationship of insomnia and pain

Schuh-Hofer, Sigrid, Wodarski, Rachel, Pfau, Doreen B., Caspani, Ombretta, Magerl, Walter, Kennedy, Jeffrey D., Treede, Rolf-Detlef·2013·Pain

Abstract

Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in chronic pain patients. Understanding their relationship has become an important research topic since poor sleep and pain are assumed to closely interact. To date, human experimental studies exploring the impact of sleep disruption/deprivation on pain perception have yielded conflicting results. This inconsistency may be due to the large heterogeneity of study populations and study protocols previously used. In addition, none of the previous studies investigated the entire spectrum of nociceptive modalities. To address these shortcomings, a standardized comprehensive quantitative sensory protocol was used in order to compare the somatosensory profile of 14 healthy subjects (6 female, 8 male, 23.5 ± 4.1 year; mean ± SD) after a night of total sleep deprivation (TSD) and a night of habitual sleep in a cross-over design. One night of TSD significantly increased the level of sleepiness (P<0.001) and resulted in higher scores of the State Anxiety Inventory (P<0.01). In addition to previously reported hyperalgesia to heat (P<0.05) and blunt pressure (P<0.05), study participants developed hyperalgesia to cold (P<0.01) and increased mechanical pain sensitivity to pinprick stimuli (P<0.05) but no changes in temporal summation. Paradoxical heat sensations or dynamic mechanical allodynia were absent. TSD selectively modulated nociception, since detection thresholds of non-nociceptive modalities remained unchanged. Our findings show that a single night of TSD is able to induce generalized hyperalgesia and to increase State Anxiety scores. In the future, TSD may serve as a translational pain model to elucidate the pathomechanisms underlying the hyperalgesic effect of sleep disturbances.

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  • Anxiolytic, anti-nociceptive and neuroprotective properties of exercise are affected in a negative direction by sleep loss.

    “Exerciseinduced elevations of endocannabinoid levels have been proposed to account partially for anxiolytic (Tantimonaco et al., 2014;Fuss et al., 2015), anti-nociceptive (Galdino et al., 2014) and neuroprotective (Hill et al., 2010a) properties of exercise, which are all responses that instead are affected in a negative direction by sleep loss (e.g.Roy-Byrne et al., 1986;Schuh-Hofer et al., 2013;”

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Authors
Schuh-Hofer, S., Wodarski, R., Pfau, D. B., Caspani, O., Magerl, W., Kennedy, J. D., & Treede, R.-D.
Affiliations
  • Eli Lilly (United States) (US)
  • Heidelberg University (DE)
Venue
Pain
Published
2013-09
Volume
154
Issue
9
Pages
1613-1621
ISSN
0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2094084202
Cited by
296
References
109
Citations by year
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FWCI
17.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Pain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • European Commission
  • Innovative Medicines Initiative
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Keywords
total sleep deprivation, hyperalgesia, insomnia, pain perception, nociception, quantitative sensory testing, mechanical allodynia, state anxiety, sleepiness
MeSH terms
Adult, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Hyperalgesia, Male, Pain, Pain Measurement, Physical Stimulation, Sleep Deprivation, Pain Threshold, Cross-Over Studies, Young Adult, Pain Perception

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