Fear and anxiety: divergent effects on human pain thresholds
By J. Rhudy, M. Meagher. Pain, 2000
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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Physiology
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Citations in the corpus
- Don't fear ‘fear conditioning’: Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear (2017, neutral): “On the other hand, the pain-threshold s sensitive to a large number of factors such as hormonal variaions (Riley et al., 1999), stress (Butler and Finn, 2009), or fear and nxiety (Rhudy and Meagher, 2000).”
- Pain and Emotion: A Biopsychosocial Review of Recent Research (2011, positive): “Research shows that fear of an external stimulus can inhibit pain in both humans and animals through activation of endogenous opioids, whereas anxiety increases pain (Rhudy & Meagher, 2000).”
- The Amygdala and Persistent Pain (2004, background): ““Pain is personal and subjective, is affected by mood and psychosocial factors, and demonstrates tremendous individual varia-”
- The influence of negative emotions on pain: Behavioral effects and neural mechanisms (2009, positive): “Although the majority of experimental studies have pointed towards an increase of pain under negative emotions, there is also evidence for a pain-attenuating effect (al Absi and Rokke,1991; Rhudy and Meagher, 2000, 2003).”
- Descending control of pain. (2002, background): “…can be assimilated into a broad panoply of adaptive behaviours and physiological responses activated by “stress” or “danger” which enhance performance under conditions of actual or impending tissue damage (Bolles and Fanselow, 1980; Fanselow et al., 1995; Millan, 1999; Rhudy and Meagher, 2000).”
- What we know about primary dysmenorrhea today: a critical review. (2015, background): “…pain perception, while arousing negative emotions and mood induces pain facilitation (Weisenberg et al., 1984, 1998; Zelman et al., 1991; Zillmann et al., 1996; Rhudy and Meagher, 2000; Meagher et al., 2001; Wunsch et al., 2003; Rainville et al., 2005; Rhudy et al., 2005; Rhudy and Bartley, 2010).”