As expected, suggestions designed to increase the sensory dimension produced a selective increase in pain intensity ratings, whereas suggestions designed to increase pain affect produced increased unpleasantness ratings and elevated skin conductance responses.
In healthy subjects, Berna et al. (2010) demonstrated that inducing sadness increased the unpleasantness of painful stimuli with those experiencing the greatest unpleasantness showing the highest activations in the amygdala and inferior frontal gyrus.
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The only previous report of quantitative sensory testing following cingulotomy described increased intensity and unpleasantness ratings of painful hot and cold stimuli in a single patient with psychiatric disease.
Valence ratings to the CS+ vs. CS− differed significantly for both acquisition phases (early: t20 = 3.13, P < 0.01; late: t20 = 4.34, P < 0.001; Fig. 2c), but not during extinction (t20 = 1.22, P = 0.32) or habituation (t20 = 1.42, P = 0.29), indicating increased reports of unpleasantness to the CS+ relative to the CS− during learning.
Within the left rACC, higher levels of deactivation tended to be associated with greater increases in unpleasantness from warmth to mild pain for males (Fig. 10).
Unfortunately, increasing the current through surface electrodes leads to a higher probability of undesired activation of A δ fibers, which is illustrated by the increase in the unpleasantness of stimuli with increasing amplitude (Janal, Clark, & Carroll, 1991).
Neuroimaging studies indicate that hypnotic suggestions of increased and decreased pain intensity and unpleasantness may modulate somatosensory and cingulate cortex activity, respectively.
The ratio of unpleasantness to intensity statistically increased from 24 to 48 hours (p = 0.010) and remained elevated one week after the exercise protocol (p = 0.007) following a different time course from measures of intensity only.
In addition, the respective congruent symbol increased the pleasantness of PEA and the unpleasantness of 1-butanol.
