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The Relationship Between Pain Perception and Interoception

Werner, Natalie S., Duschek, Stefan, Mattern, Michael, Schandry, Rainer·2009·Journal of Psychophysiology

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The question of whether the perception of externally applied pain stimuli and the perception of interoceptive stimuli are based upon similar neuronal or behavioral processes is still open to debate. If such a similarity exists, one would expect that persons who are highly sensitive to visceral stimuli would also exhibit a higher sensitivity to pain stimuli. The present study investigated the sensitivity to heat pain of individuals with high vs. low cardiac interoceptive sensitivity. Pain threshold and pain tolerance were assessed using a testing-the-limits procedure. Furthermore, participants rated the subjective intensity and unpleasantness of tonic heat stimuli on visual analog scales and in a questionnaire. The results show that pain experience did not differ between participants with high and low interoceptive sensitivity, nor did correlation analyses reveal significant relationships between pain experience and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity. These findings suggest that the pathway of peripheral pain processing is at least partially independent of the pathway of interoceptive sensations.

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  • Many studies have found non-significant relationships between performance across different interoceptive domains, for example between cardiac and pain perception and between cardiac and respiratory abilities.

    “Conversely, many studies have found non-significant relationships between performance across different interoceptive domains. Evidence suggests, for example, that cardiac and pain perception (Werner, Duschek, Mattern, and Schandry, 2009) and cardiac and respiratory abilities (Garfinkel et al., 2016; Harver et al., 1993; Nicholson et al., 2019; Pollatos et al., 2016;”

    From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Werner, Duschek, Mattern, and Schandry, 2009

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Authors
Werner, N. S., Duschek, S., Mattern, M., & Schandry, R.
Affiliations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Venue
Journal of Psychophysiology
Published
2009-01
Volume
23
Issue
1
Pages
35-42
ISSN
  • 0269-8803 (ISSN-L)
  • 2151-2124
OpenAlex
W2141903342
Cited by
45
References
65
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Keywords
pain perception, interoception, visceral sensitivity, thermal pain, pain threshold, pain tolerance, pain unpleasantness, pain intensity

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