Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

MA Fitzcharles, SP Cohen, DJ Clauw, G Littlejohn… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Nociplastic pain is the semantic term suggested by the international community of pain
researchers to describe a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from …

The role of the insular cortex in pain

C Labrakakis - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The transition from normal to chronic pain is believed to involve alterations in several brain
areas that participate in the perception of pain. These plastic changes are then responsible …

Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief employs different neural mechanisms than placebo and sham mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia

F Zeidan, NM Emerson, SR Farris, JN Ray… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Mindfulness meditation reduces pain in experimental and clinical settings. However, it
remains unknown whether mindfulness meditation engages pain-relieving mechanisms …

Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: a mechanistic account

F Zeidan, DR Vago - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves interacting sensory, cognitive, and
affective factors, rendering the treatment of chronic pain challenging and financially …

The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex

AJ Shackman, TV Salomons, HA Slagter… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in
distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a …

How to sustain the customer experience:: An overview of experience components that co-create value with the customer

C Gentile, N Spiller, G Noci - European management journal, 2007 - Elsevier
Nowadays the experience factor plays an increasingly important role in determining the
success of a company's offering. The literature on Customer Experience is growing fast and …

The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: scientific advances and future directions.

RJ Gatchel, YB Peng, ML Peters, PN Fuchs… - Psychological …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The prevalence and cost of chronic pain is a major physical and mental health care problem
in the United States today. As a result, there has been a recent explosion of research on …

Psychosocial versus physiological stress—Meta-analyses on deactivations and activations of the neural correlates of stress reactions

L Kogler, VI Müller, A Chang, SB Eickhoff, PT Fox… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Stress is present in everyday life in various forms and situations. Two stressors frequently
investigated are physiological and psychosocial stress. Besides similar subjective and …

Mind wandering away from pain dynamically engages antinociceptive and default mode brain networks

A Kucyi, TV Salomons… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Human minds often wander away from their immediate sensory environment. It remains
unknown whether such mind wandering is unsystematic or whether it lawfully relates to an …

Three systems of insular functional connectivity identified with cluster analysis

B Deen, NB Pitskel, KA Pelphrey - Cerebral cortex, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Despite much research on the function of the insular cortex, few studies have investigated
functional subdivisions of the insula in humans. The present study used resting-state …