Abnormal Visual Evoked Responses to Emotional Cues Correspond to Diagnosis and Disease Severity in Fibromyalgia

Copyright © 2022 Goldway, Petro, Ablin, Keil, Ben Simon, Zamir, Weizman, Greental, Hendler and Sharon..

Background: Chronic pain disorders are often associated with cognitive-emotional dysregulation. However, the relations between such dysregulation, underlying brain processes, and clinical symptom constellations, remain unclear. Here, we aimed to characterize the abnormalities in cognitive-emotional processing involved in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and their relation to disease severity.

Methods: Fifty-eight participants, 39 FMS patients (35F), and 19 healthy control subjects (16F) performed an EEG-based paradigm assessing attention allocation by extracting steady-state visually evoked potentials (ssVEP) in response to affective distractors presented during a cognitive task. Patients were also evaluated for pain severity, sleep quality, depression, and anxiety.

Results: EEG ssVEP measurement indicated that, compared to healthy controls, FMS patients displayed impaired affective discrimination, and sustained attention to negative distractors. Moreover, patients displayed decreased task-related fronto-occipital EEG connectivity. Lack of adaptive attentional discrimination, measured via EEG, was predictive of pain severity, while impairments in fronto-occipital connectivity were predictive of impaired sleep.

Conclusions: FMS patients display maladaptive affective attention modulation, which predicts disease symptoms. These findings support the centrality of cognitive-emotional dysregulation in the pathophysiology of chronic pain.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience - 16(2022) vom: 17., Seite 852133

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Goldway, Noam [VerfasserIn]
Petro, Nathan M [VerfasserIn]
Ablin, Jacob [VerfasserIn]
Keil, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Ben Simon, Eti [VerfasserIn]
Zamir, Yoav [VerfasserIn]
Weizman, Libat [VerfasserIn]
Greental, Ayam [VerfasserIn]
Hendler, Talma [VerfasserIn]
Sharon, Haggai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attention bias dynamics
Chronic pain & fibromyalgia
EEG
Emotion regulation
Journal Article
SsVEP (steady-state visual evoked potential)

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Date Revised 16.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fnbeh.2022.852133

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341235563