期刊
PAIN
卷 144, 期 3, 页码 236-244出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.02.022
关键词
Visceral pain; Personality; Autonomic; Vagus; Brainstem; Co-activation; Neuroticism
资金
- Cancer Research UK
- MRC
- Medical Research Council [G0701706, G0600965] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0701706, G0600965] Funding Source: UKRI
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) integrates afferent and motor activity for homeostatic processes including pain. The aim of the study was to compare hitherto Poorly characterised relations between brainstem autonomic control and personality in response to visceral and somatic pain. Eighteen healthy subjects (16 females, mean age 34) had recordings during rest and pain of heart rate (HR), cardiac vagal tone (CVT), cardiac sensitivity to baroreflex (CSB), skin conductance level (SC), cardiac sympathetic index (CSI) and mean blood pressure (MBP). Visceral pain was induced by balloon distension in proximal (PB) and distal (DB) oesophagus and somatic pain by nail-bed pressure (NBP). Eight painful stimuli were delivered at each site and unpleasantness and intensity measured. Personality was profiled with the Big Five inventory. (I) Oesophageal intubation evoked fight-flight responses: HK and sympathetic (CSI, SC, MBP) elevation with parasympathetic (CVT) withdrawal (p < 0.05). (2) Pain at all sites evoked novel parasympathetic/sympathetic co-activation with elevated HR but vasodepression (all p < 0.05). (3) Personality traits correlated with slope of distal oesophageal pain-related CVT changes wherein more neurotic-introvert subjects had greater positive pain-related CVT slope change (neuroticism r 0.8, p < 0.05; extroversion r -0.5, p < 0.05). Pain-evoked heart rate increases were mediated by parasympathetic and sympathetic co-activation - a novel finding in humans but recently described in mammals too. Visceral pain-related parasympathetic change correlated with personality. ANS defence responses are nuanced and may relate to personality type for visceral pain. Clinical relevance of these findings warrants further exploration. (C) 2009 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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