• Yanli Luo, Chao Yan, Tianming Huang, Mingxia Fan, Liang Liu, Zhiyong Zhao, Kaiji Ni, Hong Jiang, Xiao Huang, Zheng Lu, Wenyuan Wu, Mingyuan Zhang, and Xiaoduo Fan.
• Department of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
• Pain Pract. 2016 Nov 1; 16 (8): 969-979.

AbstractPatients with persistent somatoform pain disorder (PSPD) suffer from long-term pain and emotional conflicts. Recently, accumulating evidence indicated that emotion has a significant role in pain perception of somatoform pain disorder. To further understand the association between emotion and pain-related brain activities, functional activities of patients with PSPD fulfilling ICD-10 criteria and healthy controls were assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology, while participants viewed a series of positive, neutral, or negative pictures with or without pinprick pain stimulation. Results showed that patients with PSPD had altered brain activities in the parietal gyrus, temporal gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex, and parahippocampus in response to pinprick pain stimuli during different emotions compared with the healthy control group. Moreover, patients with PSPD consistently showed hyperactivities in the prefrontal, the fusiform gyrus and the insula in response to negative stimuli under pinprick pain vs. non-pain condition. The current findings provide some insights into the underlying relationship between emotion and pain-related brain activity in patients with PSPD, which is of both theoretical and clinical importance.© 2016 World Institute of Pain.

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