Mechanisms of self-generated positive and negative expectations on pai
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Pain and pain treatment
- Registration Number
- DRKS00026966
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 42
Inclusion Criteria
Healthy adults with normal or corrected-to-normal vision, right-handed
Exclusion Criteria
- red-green deficiency
- chronic or acute disease or pain
- neurological or psychiatric disorders
- pregnancy
- regular medication intake (except contraceptive), recent use of psychotropic or analgesic substances
- use of illegal drugs
- smoking
- participation in any medication-associated experimental study in the last 6 months
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method We will test if cued self-generated expectations affect pain processing.<br><br>Our main aim is to assess time-frequency (EEG) neural characteristics of self-generated positive and negative expectations on pain in the expectation phase directly prior to the application of painful stimuli.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method In addition, we will examine neural processes after the cue presentation and during the application of the pain stimuli.