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Endogenous Pain Modulation: Association with Resting Heart Rate Variability and Negative Affectivity
Author(s) -
Maaike Van Den Houte,
Lukas Van Oudenhove,
Katleen Bogaerts,
Ilse Van Diest,
Omer Van den Bergh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnx165
Subject(s) - negative affectivity , noxious stimulus , heart rate variability , heart rate , chronic pain , medicine , threshold of pain , stimulation , positive affectivity , anesthesia , population , diffuse noxious inhibitory control , endogenous opioid , cardiology , nociception , physical therapy , opioid , psychiatry , blood pressure , anxiety , receptor , environmental health
Several chronic pain syndromes are characterized by deficient endogenous pain modulation as well as elevated negative affectivity and reduced resting heart rate variability. In order to elucidate the relationships between these characteristics, we investigated whether negative affectivity and heart rate variability are associated with endogenous pain modulation in a healthy population.

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