High blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain sensitivity, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. The underlying neural mechanisms remain uncertain, yet arterial baroreceptor signaling, occurring at cardiac systole, is implicated. We examined normotensives using functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and pain stimulation during distinct phases of the cardiac cycle to test the hypothesized neural mediation of baroreceptor-induced attenuation of pain

Brain-heart pathways to blood pressure-related hypoalgesia / Ottaviani, Cristina; Fagioli, Sabrina; Mattei, Eugenio; Censi, Federica; Edwards, Louisa; Macaluso, Emiliano; Bozzali, Marco; Critchley, Hugo; Calcagnini, Giovanni. - In: PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE. - ISSN 0033-3174. - (2018). [10.1097/PSY.0000000000000581]

Brain-heart pathways to blood pressure-related hypoalgesia

Ottaviani, Cristina
Primo
Conceptualization
;
FAGIOLI, Sabrina
Secondo
Formal Analysis
;
CENSI, Federica
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
CALCAGNINI, Giovanni
Ultimo
Methodology
2018

Abstract

High blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain sensitivity, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. The underlying neural mechanisms remain uncertain, yet arterial baroreceptor signaling, occurring at cardiac systole, is implicated. We examined normotensives using functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and pain stimulation during distinct phases of the cardiac cycle to test the hypothesized neural mediation of baroreceptor-induced attenuation of pain
2018
baroreceptors; blood pressure; fMRI; hypoalgesia; pain
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Brain-heart pathways to blood pressure-related hypoalgesia / Ottaviani, Cristina; Fagioli, Sabrina; Mattei, Eugenio; Censi, Federica; Edwards, Louisa; Macaluso, Emiliano; Bozzali, Marco; Critchley, Hugo; Calcagnini, Giovanni. - In: PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE. - ISSN 0033-3174. - (2018). [10.1097/PSY.0000000000000581]
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