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Kim J, Yang C, Joo HJ, Park RW, Kim GE, Kim D, Choi J, Lee JH, Kim E, Park SC, Kim K, Kim IB. Risks of complicated acute appendicitis in patients with psychiatric disorders. BMC Psychiatry 2022; 22:763. [PMID: 36471298 PMCID: PMC9721022 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-04428-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/09/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acute appendicitis often presents with vague abdominal pain, which fosters diagnostic challenges to clinicians regarding early detection and proper intervention. This is even more problematic with individuals with severe psychiatric disorders who have reduced sensitivity to pain due to long-term or excessive medication use or disturbed bodily sensation perceptions. This study aimed to determine whether psychiatric disorder, psychotropic prescription, and treatment compliance increase the risks of complicated acute appendicitis. METHODS The diagnosis records of acute appendicitis from four university hospitals in Korea were investigated from 2002 to 2020. A total of 47,500 acute appendicitis-affected participants were divided into groups with complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis to determine whether any of the groups had more cases of psychiatric disorder diagnoses. Further, the ratio of complicated compared to uncomplicated appendicitis in the mentally ill group was calculated regarding psychotropic dose, prescription duration, and treatment compliance. RESULTS After adjusting for age and sex, presence of psychotic disorder (odds ratio [OR]: 1.951; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.218-3.125), and bipolar disorder (OR: 2.323; 95% CI: 1.194-4.520) was associated with a higher risk of having complicated appendicitis compared with absence of psychiatric disorders. Patients who are taking high-daily-dose antipsychotics, regardless of prescription duration, show high complicated appendicitis risks; High-dose antipsychotics for < 1 year (OR: 1.896, 95% CI: 1.077-3.338), high-dose antipsychotics for 1-5 years (OR: 1.930, 95% CI: 1.144-3.256). Poor psychiatric outpatient compliance was associated with a high risk of complicated appendicitis (OR: 1.664, 95% CI: 1.014-2.732). CONCLUSIONS This study revealed a close relationship in the possibility of complicated appendicitis in patients with severe psychiatric disorders, including psychotic and bipolar disorders. The effect on complicated appendicitis was more remarkable by the psychiatric disease entity itself than by psychotropic prescription patterns. Good treatment compliance and regular visit may reduce the morbidity of complicated appendicitis in patients with psychiatric disorders.
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- Junmo Kim
- grid.31501.360000 0004 0470 5905Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.49606.3d0000 0001 1364 9317Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea ,grid.411986.30000 0004 4671 5423Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.411134.20000 0004 0474 0479Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea ,grid.222754.40000 0001 0840 2678Department of Medical Informatics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.251916.80000 0004 0532 3933Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea
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- grid.411076.5Department of Psychiatry, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.49606.3d0000 0001 1364 9317Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.49606.3d0000 0001 1364 9317Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea ,grid.412145.70000 0004 0647 3212Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea
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- grid.49606.3d0000 0001 1364 9317Department of Surgery, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- grid.412145.70000 0004 0647 3212Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea
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- grid.49606.3d0000 0001 1364 9317Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea ,grid.412145.70000 0004 0647 3212Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea
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- Transdisciplinary Department of Medicine and Advanced Technology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, Republic of Korea. .,Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
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Rogers ML, Gallyer AJ, Dougherty SP, Gorday JY, Nelson JA, Teasdale OD, Joiner TE. Are all pain tolerance tasks the same? Convergent validity of four behavioral pain tolerance tasks, self-reported capability for suicide, and lifetime self-injurious behaviors. J Clin Psychol 2021; 77:2929-2942. [PMID: 34825357 DOI: 10.1002/jclp.23283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Discrepancies persist regarding the extent to which different pain measures provide similar information and relate to capability for suicide and self-injurious behaviors. This study examined pain threshold, tolerance, and persistence across four modalities (cold, heat, pressure, shock) and assessed associations with self-reported capability for suicide, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and suicide attempts. METHODS A sample of 211 students who reported lifetime suicidal ideation completed four behavioral pain tasks and self-reported on capability for suicide, NSSI, and self-injurious behaviors. RESULTS All pain thresholds, tolerances, and persistences were positively correlated across the four tasks. Pain facets were related to self-reported capability for suicide with small effect sizes but generally did not differ across suicide attempt or NSSI histories. CONCLUSIONS Pain thresholds, tolerances, and persistences demonstrated convergent validity across the four modalities, suggesting that these tasks provide similar information. Although the relation between pain and self-injurious behaviors remains unclear, these tasks can generally be used interchangeably.
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- Megan L Rogers
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, USA
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Interoception abnormalities in schizophrenia: A review of preliminary evidence and an integration with Bayesian accounts of psychosis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 132:757-773. [PMID: 34823914 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2021] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Schizophrenia research has traditionally focused almost exclusively on how the brain interprets the outside world. However, our internal bodily milieu is also central to how we interpret the world and construct our reality: signals from within the body are critical for not only basic survival, but also a wide range of brain functions from basic perception, emotion, and motivation, to sense of self. In this article, we propose that interoception-the processing of bodily signals-may have implications for a wide range of clinical symptoms in schizophrenia and may thus provide key insights into illness mechanisms. We start with an overview of interoception pathways. Then we provide a review of direct and indirect findings in various interoceptive systems in schizophrenia and interpret these findings in the context of computational frameworks that model interoception as hierarchical Bayesian inference. Finally, we propose a conceptual model of how altered interoceptive inference may contribute to specific schizophrenia symptoms-negative symptoms in particular-and suggest directions for future research, including potential new avenues of treatment.
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Pachkowski MC, Rogers ML, Saffer BY, Caulfield NM, Klonsky ED. Clarifying the Relationship of Dissociative Experiences to Suicide Ideation and Attempts: A Multimethod Examination in Two Samples. Behav Ther 2021; 52:1067-1079. [PMID: 34452662 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2021.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 02/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Fears of pain, injury, and death may represent key barriers to acting on suicidal thoughts. Dissociation, which involves a disconnection from one's body, may reduce fears and sensations of pain associated with harming the body, in turn facilitating suicide attempts. This study examined whether dissociation differentiated individuals with a history of suicide attempts from those with a history of suicide ideation, and investigated whether other relevant constructs explain this relationship. Sample 1 included 754 undergraduates (Mage = 21, 79% female) who completed a battery of self-report measures. Sample 2 included 247 undergraduates (Mage = 19, 74% female) who completed a self-report measure of dissociation, a clinical interview regarding suicide history, and four counterbalanced behavioral pain tolerance tasks. In both samples, dissociation was elevated in lifetime attempters compared to ideators (d = 0.28; d = 0.46; ps = 0.01) and slightly elevated in lifetime ideators compared to nonsuicidal individuals (d = 0.19, p = .02; d = 0.24, p = .47), though this effect was non-significant in the latter sample. In Sample 1, dissociation no longer differentiated attempters from ideators after controlling for clinical covariates. In Sample 2, dissociation was unrelated to behavioral pain tolerance tasks, and these tasks did not account for the association between dissociation and attempts. Overall, dissociation differentiated individuals with a history of suicide attempts from those with ideation alone in both samples. Pain tolerance did not explain this association; instead, it is possible that the relationship of dissociation to suicide attempts is due to "third variables" associated with both phenomena, such as symptoms of borderline personality disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Rogers ML, Duffy ME, Dougherty SP, Joiner TE. Interoception, Pain Tolerance, and Self-Injurious Behaviors: A Multidimensional Assessment. Behav Ther 2021; 52:1055-1066. [PMID: 34452661 DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2021.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Impairments in interoception have been linked to self-injurious behaviors, and capability for suicide may account for this relationship. However, past studies have relied primarily on self-report and unidimensional measures. The present study aimed to replicate and extend previous findings by examining the relationship between interoceptive dysfunction, pain tolerance, and self-injurious behaviors using a multidimensional and multi-method approach. A sample of 245 undergraduate students (Mage = 19.27 years, SD = 2.81; 73.7% female, 72.% White/European American), who reported lifetime suicidal ideation on a screening survey completed a battery of self-report measures, four counterbalanced pain tolerance tasks, and a clinical interview assessing their self-injurious behaviors. A tendency to stay attuned to bodily sensations was significantly related to decreased pain tolerance. Only trust in one's body was significantly related to decreased presence of lifetime suicide attempts. No other facets of interoception or pain tolerance were significantly associated with self-injurious behaviors. Overall, these findings contrast with previous findings that capability for suicide may account for relations between interoceptive dysfunction and self-injurious behaviors. Nonetheless, the results of this study provide important information on the factor structure of interoceptive dysfunction and pain tolerance, and highlight the importance of careful selection of measures and operationalization of key constructs, particularly interoceptive dysfunction and pain tolerance.
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Lincoln SH, Germine LT, Mair P, Hooker CI. Simulation and social behavior: an fMRI study of neural processing during simulation in individuals with and without risk for psychosis. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2021; 15:165-174. [PMID: 32248225 PMCID: PMC7304514 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaa047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Revised: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Social dysfunction is a risk indicator for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, with at-risk individuals demonstrating a range of social behavior impairments. Variability in social ability may be explained by individual differences in the psychological processes of social behavior. In particular, mental simulation, the process by which an individual generates an internal representation of the thoughts or feelings of another, may explain variation in social behavior. This study investigates the neural process of simulation in healthy individuals and individuals at risk for psychosis. Using a novel fMRI pain paradigm, individuals watch videos of another person’s hand or foot experiencing pain. After each video, individuals are asked to simulate the observed painful situation on their own hand or foot. Neural activity during simulation in the somatosensory cortex was associated with real-world self-reported social behavior, such that a stronger neural response in the somatosensory cortex was associated with greater rates of positive social experiences and affective empathy across all participants. These findings suggest that the neural mechanisms that underlie simulation are important for social behavior, and may explain individual variability in social functioning in healthy and at-risk populations.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Aras N. A Case of Self-Cannibalism: An Extremely Rare Type of Self-Mutilation With Multiple Risk Factors. J Nerv Ment Dis 2021; 209:237-239. [PMID: 33764950 DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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ABSTRACT Self-mutilation is a behavior often associated with various psychiatric diseases, and it has various risk factors. Self-cannibalism, an extremely rare form of self-mutilation, can also be observed in the absence of psychosis and substance abuse. This study reports a case of self-cannibalism with multiple risk factors including history of substance use, previous self-mutilation actions, suicidal attempts, antisocial personality disorder, imprisonment, and active symptoms associated with untreated schizophrenia.
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- Neriman Aras
- Samsun Mental Health and Disorders Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Samsun, Turkey
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Rogers ML, Hom MA, Dougherty SP, Gallyer AJ, Joiner TE. Comparing Suicide Risk Factors Among Individuals with a History of Aborted, Interrupted, and Actual Suicide Attempts. Arch Suicide Res 2020; 24:57-74. [PMID: 30303461 DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2018.1522283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Recent standardized nomenclature has suggested distinctions among aborted, interrupted, and actual suicide attempts. This study examined differences in self-reported symptoms among individuals with a history of aborted, interrupted, and actual suicide attempts. 167 young adults with a history of suicidality completed self-report measures of suicide attempt history and current symptoms, a clinical interview assessing past suicidal behavior, and a pain tolerance task. Only 78.8% of participants who initially reported a suicide attempt history were classified as suicide attempters following the clinical interview. Individuals who reported only aborted attempts during the clinical interview reported less severe clinical symptoms than those reporting a history of at least one actual attempt. Individuals with a history of actual suicide attempts may represent a more clinically severe group than those with a history of aborted attempts only.
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Zhou L, Bi Y, Liang M, Kong Y, Tu Y, Zhang X, Song Y, Du X, Tan S, Hu L. A modality-specific dysfunction of pain processing in schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 41:1738-1753. [PMID: 31868305 PMCID: PMC7267942 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Clinical observations showed that schizophrenia (SCZ) patients reported little or no pain under various conditions that are commonly associated with intense painful sensations, leading to a higher risk of morbidity and mortality. However, this phenomenon has received little attention and its underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we conducted two experiments combining psychophysics, electroencephalography (EEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate neural mechanisms of pain insensitivity in SCZ patients. Specifically, we adopted a stimulus–response paradigm with brief stimuli of different sensory modalities (i.e., nociceptive, non‐nociceptive somatosensory, and auditory) to test whether pain insensitivity in SCZ patients is supra‐modal or modality‐specific, and used EEG and fMRI techniques to clarify its neural mechanisms. We observed that perceived intensities to nociceptive stimuli were significantly smaller in SCZ patients than healthy controls, whereas perceived intensities to non‐nociceptive somatosensory and auditory stimuli were not significantly different. The behavioral results were confirmed by stimulus‐evoked brain responses sampled by EEG and fMRI techniques, thus verifying the modality‐specific nature of the modulation of nociceptive information processing in SCZ patients. Additionally, significant group differences were observed in the spectral power of alpha oscillations in prestimulus EEG and the seed‐based functional connectivity in resting‐state fMRI (seeds: the thalamus and periaqueductal gray that are key nodes in ascending and descending pain pathways respectively), suggesting a possible contribution of cortical–subcortical dysfunction to the phenomenon. Overall, our study provides insight into the neural mechanisms of pain insensitivity in SCZ and highlights a need for systematic assessments of their pain‐related diseases.
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- Lili Zhou
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Medical Imaging and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioural Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Psychiatry Research Centre, Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Psychiatry Research Centre, Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Psychiatry Research Centre, Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Pain Management, The State Key Clinical Specialty in Pain Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Li Y, Zhang T, Li W, Zhang J, Jin Z, Li L. Linking brain structure and activation in anterior insula cortex to explain the trait empathy for pain. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 41:1030-1042. [PMID: 31691467 PMCID: PMC7267919 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The ability to perceive, understand, and react to the feelings of others' pain is referred to as empathy for pain which is composed of two components, affective‐perceptual empathy and cognitive‐evaluative empathy. Recent reviews on the neural mechanisms of empathetic pain showed the anterior insula (AI) cortex as a core circuit for empathy. However, little is known about the modulation of brain anatomy and empathic responses by trait measures of empathy (trait empathy). Thus, we investigated whether individual variation in the personality trait of empathy is associated with individual variation in the structure of specific brain regions using voxel‐based morphometry (VBM). We further investigated the relationship between the trait empathy and the activity of the same regions using state measures of empathy for pain in a trial‐by‐trial fashion in the given situation. VBM analysis indicated a small but significant negative relationship between trait empathy and gray matter volume in the bilateral AI. Functional MRI study further demonstrated that experimentally induced activity of the bilateral AI during state empathy for pain was also correlated with trait empathy. An asymmetry exists between the right and left AI between the affective and cognitive empathy. The right AI was found to be involved in the affective‐perceptual form of empathy and the left AI was active in cognitive‐evaluative forms of empathy. The interindividual differences in trait empathy may be reflected both in the state empathy and more stable brain structure difference.
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- Yun Li
- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054.,School of Management, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China, 611137
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, High-Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Center for Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 610054
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Rogers ML, Joiner TE. Interactive Effects of Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance and Pain Persistence on Suicide Attempt Frequency and Lethality. CRISIS 2019; 40:413-421. [DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Abstract. Background: Acute suicidal affective disturbance (ASAD) has been proposed as a suicide-specific entity that confers risk for imminent suicidal behavior. Preliminary evidence suggests that ASAD is associated with suicidal behavior beyond a number of factors; however, no study to date has examined potential moderating variables. Aims: The present study tested the hypotheses that physical pain persistence would moderate the relationship between ASAD and (1) lifetime suicide attempts and (2) attempt lethality. Method: Students ( N = 167) with a history of suicidality completed self-report measures assessing the lifetime worst-point ASAD episode and the presence of a lifetime suicide attempt, a clinical interview about attempt lethality, and a physical pain tolerance task. Results: Physical pain persistence was a significant moderator of the association between ASAD and lifetime suicide attempts ( B = 0.00001, SE = 0.000004, p = .032), such that the relationship between ASAD and suicide attempts strengthened at increasing levels of pain persistence. The interaction between ASAD and pain persistence in relation to attempt lethality was nonsignificant ( B = 0.000004, SE = 0.00001, p = .765). Limitations: This study included a cross-sectional/retrospective analysis of worst-point ASAD symptoms, current physical pain perception, and lifetime suicide attempts. Conclusion: ASAD may confer risk for suicidal behavior most strongly at higher levels of pain persistence, whereas ASAD and pain perception do not influence attempt lethality.
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- Megan L. Rogers
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Pryce KD, Powell R, Agwa D, Evely KM, Sheehan GD, Nip A, Tomasello DL, Gururaj S, Bhattacharjee A. Magi-1 scaffolds Na V1.8 and Slack K Na channels in dorsal root ganglion neurons regulating excitability and pain. FASEB J 2019; 33:7315-7330. [PMID: 30860870 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201802454rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Voltage-dependent sodium (NaV) 1.8 channels regulate action potential generation in nociceptive neurons, identifying them as putative analgesic targets. Here, we show that NaV1.8 channel plasma membrane localization, retention, and stability occur through a direct interaction with the postsynaptic density-95/discs large/zonula occludens-1-and WW domain-containing scaffold protein called membrane-associated guanylate kinase with inverted orientation (Magi)-1. The neurophysiological roles of Magi-1 are largely unknown, but we found that dorsal root ganglion (DRG)-specific knockdown of Magi-1 attenuated thermal nociception and acute inflammatory pain and produced deficits in NaV1.8 protein expression. A competing cell-penetrating peptide mimetic derived from the NaV1.8 WW binding motif decreased sodium currents, reduced NaV1.8 protein expression, and produced hypoexcitability. Remarkably, a phosphorylated variant of the very same peptide caused an opposing increase in NaV1.8 surface expression and repetitive firing. Likewise, in vivo, the peptides produced diverging effects on nocifensive behavior. Additionally, we found that Magi-1 bound to sequence like a calcium-activated potassium channel sodium-activated (Slack) potassium channels, demonstrating macrocomplexing with NaV1.8 channels. Taken together, these findings emphasize Magi-1 as an essential scaffold for ion transport in DRG neurons and a central player in pain.-Pryce, K. D., Powell, R., Agwa, D., Evely, K. M., Sheehan, G. D., Nip, A., Tomasello, D. L., Gururaj, S., Bhattacharjee, A. Magi-1 scaffolds NaV1.8 and Slack KNa channels in dorsal root ganglion neurons regulating excitability and pain.
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- Kerri D Pryce
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
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Brooks JM, Umucu E, Huck GE, Fortuna K, Sánchez J, Chiu C, Bartels SJ. Sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and functional impairment among older adults with serious mental illness reporting moderate-to-severe pain. Psychiatr Rehabil J 2018; 41:224-233. [PMID: 30160508 PMCID: PMC6123826 DOI: 10.1037/prj0000316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To compare adults aged ≥50 years with serious mental illness reporting moderate-to-severe pain to older adults with serious mental illness without pain with respect to sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and functional impairment. METHOD Secondary data analyses were conducted using baseline assessments of 183 participants recruited for the Helping Older People Experience Success (HOPES) study from three community mental health centers. The primary outcome was self-reported, nonexperimentally induced, moderate-to-severe pain (referent = no-to-mild pain). Predictor variables consisted of sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and functional impairment. We conducted univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses to examine the associations between these variables. RESULTS Sixty-one participants (33.3%) from our sample reported pain. Pain was associated with all of the sociodemographic and health-related factors in univariable analyses. In the multivariable model, only older age, pain-related activity interference, and physical and emotional health-related social limitations were significantly associated with pain. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The presence of moderate-to-severe pain in older adults with serious mental illness is associated with pain-attributable impairment of activities and social problems above and beyond the substantial functional limitations routinely experienced by this high-risk, high-need group. Given the high rates of preexisting conditions and persistent social impairment among these older adults, our findings suggest that pain may contribute to worse overall functional outcomes. Future research and clinical interventions focused on improving outcomes should include an evaluation of pain as a contributor to decreased functioning and assess the need for early intervention, nonpharmacological pain management, or other health promotion services in psychiatric rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Jessica M Brooks
- Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine and Centers for Health and Aging, Dartmouth College
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
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- Department of Rehabilitation and Human Services, Penn State Hazleton
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- Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine and Centers for Health and Aging, Dartmouth College
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- Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, The University of Iowa
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- Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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- Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine and Centers for Health and Aging, Dartmouth College
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Riquin É, Hubault P, Baize N, Lhuillier JP, Duverger P. Particularités de l’accompagnement en soins palliatifs d’un patient atteint de schizophrénie en secteur psychiatrique. ANNALES MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUES 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.amp.2016.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mariano TY, Van't Wout M, Garnaat SL, Rasmussen SA, Greenberg BD. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Targeting Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Modulates Task-Induced Acute Pain in Healthy Volunteers. PAIN MEDICINE 2015; 17:737-45. [PMID: 26814276 DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnv042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Current chronic pain treatments target nociception rather than affective "suffering" and its associated functional and psychiatric comorbidities. The left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been implicated in affective, cognitive, and attentional aspects of pain and is a primary target of neuromodulation for affective disorders. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can non-invasively modulate cortical activity. The present study tests whether anodal tDCS targeting the left DLPFC will increase tolerability of acute painful stimuli vs cathodal tDCS. METHODS Forty tDCS-naive healthy volunteers received anodal and cathodal stimulation targeting the left DLPFC in two randomized and counterbalanced sessions. During stimulation, each participant performed cold pressor (CP) and breath holding (BH) tasks. We measured pain intensity with the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale (DVPRS) before and after each task. RESULTS Mixed ANOVA revealed no main effect of stimulation polarity for mean CP threshold, tolerance, or endurance, or mean BH time (allP > 0.27). However, DVPRS rise associated with CP was significantly smaller with anodal vs cathodal tDCS (P = 0.024). We further observed a significant tDCS polarity × stimulation order interaction (P = 0.042) on CP threshold, suggesting task sensitization. CONCLUSIONS Although our results do not suggest that polarity of tDCS targeting the left DLPFC differentially modulates the tolerability of CP- and BH-related pain distress in healthy volunteers, there was a significant effect on DVPRS pain ratings. This contrasts with our previous findings that tDCS targeting the left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex showed a trend toward higher mean CP tolerance with cathodal vs anodal stimulation. The present results may suggest tDCS-related effects on nociception or DLPFC-mediated attention, or preferential modulation of the affective valence of pain as captured by the DVPRS. Sham-controlled clinical studies are needed.
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- Timothy Y Mariano
- *Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- *Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- *Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- *Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- *Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Mariano TY, van't Wout M, Jacobson BL, Garnaat SL, Kirschner JL, Rasmussen SA, Greenberg BD. Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Pain Distress Tolerance: A Preliminary Study. PAIN MEDICINE 2015; 16:1580-8. [PMID: 26115372 DOI: 10.1111/pme.12798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2015] [Revised: 04/03/2015] [Accepted: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Pain remains a critical medical challenge. Current treatments target nociception without addressing affective symptoms. Medically intractable pain is sometimes treated with cingulotomy or deep brain stimulation to increase tolerance of pain-related distress. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may noninvasively modulate cortical areas related to sensation and pain representations. The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that cathodal ("inhibitory") stimulation targeting left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) would increase tolerance to distress from acute painful stimuli vs anodal stimulation. METHODS Forty healthy volunteers received both anodal and cathodal stimulation. During stimulation, we measured pain distress tolerance with three tasks: pressure algometer, cold pressor, and breath holding. We measured pain intensity with a visual-analog scale before and after each task. RESULTS Mixed ANOVA revealed that mean cold pressor tolerance tended to be higher with cathodal vs anodal stimulation (P = 0.055) for participants self-completing the task. Pressure algometer (P = 0.81) and breath holding tolerance (P = 0.19) did not significantly differ. The pressure algometer exhibited a statistically significant order effect irrespective of stimulation polarity (all P < 0.008). Pain intensity ratings increased acutely after cold pressor and pressure algometer tasks (both P < 0.01), but not after breath holding (P = 0.099). Cold pressor pain ratings tended to rise less after cathodal vs anodal tDCS (P = 0.072). CONCLUSIONS Although our primary results were nonsignificant, there is a preliminary suggestion that cathodal tDCS targeting left dACC may increase pain distress tolerance to cold pressor. Pressure algometer results are consistent with task-related sensitization. Future studies are needed to refine this novel approach for pain neuromodulation.
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- Timothy Y Mariano
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906, USA.,Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, 02908, USA
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OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia is associated with a reduction of the lifespan by 20 years, with type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease contributing the most to the increased mortality. Unrecognised or silent myocardial infarction (MI) occurs in ~30% of the population, but the rates of unrecognised MI in patients with schizophrenia have only been sparsely investigated. METHOD Electrocardiograms (ECG) from three psychiatric hospitals in Denmark were manually interpreted for signs of previous MI. Subsequently, ECGs were linked to the National Patient Registry in order to determine whether patients had a diagnosis consistent with previous MI. RESULTS A total of 937 ECGs were interpreted, 538 men (57.4%) and 399 women (42.6%). Mean age at the time of ECG acquisition was 40.6 years (95% CI: 39.7-41.5, range: 15.9-94.6). We identified 32 patients with positive ECG signs of MIs. Only two of these patients had a diagnosis of MI in the National Patient Registry. An additional number of eight patients had a diagnosis of MI in the Danish National Patient Registry, but with no ECG signs of previous MI. This means that 30 out of 40 (75%) MIs were unrecognised. Only increasing age was associated with unrecognised MI in a stepwise multiple logistic regression model compared with patients with no history of MI, OR: 1.03 per year of age, 95% CI: 1.00-1.06, p=0.021. CONCLUSION Unrecognised MI is common among patients with schizophrenia and may contribute to the increased mortality found in this patient group.
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Urban-Kowalczyk M, Pigońska J, Śmigielski J. Pain perception in schizophrenia: influence of neuropeptides, cognitive disorders, and negative symptoms. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2015; 11:2023-31. [PMID: 26273205 PMCID: PMC4532169 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s87666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES The causes and nature of insensitivity to pain in schizophrenia remain unknown. The role of endorphins and the association of cognitive dysfunction and negative symptoms are postulated. METHODS In this study, 43 patients with schizophrenia, five first-degree relatives, and 34 healthy controls were examined. Participants' plasma concentrations of substance P, β-endorphin, and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) were assessed. In patients, the Trail-Making Test, the Color Reading Interference Test (Stroop test), and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Negative Syndrome subscale (PANSS N) test were performed. We also evaluated pain threshold using nociceptive reflex (RTIII) testing. RESULTS The mean β-endorphin concentration was about 20% higher in patients than in healthy controls (P<0.05). CGRP concentrations were significantly higher in patients than in controls (5.34 ng/mL versus 4.16 ng/mL; P<0.01). Subjects treated with antipsychotic polytherapy had higher concentrations of CGRP than did patients treated with second-generation antipsychotic monotherapy (5.92 ng/mL versus 5.02 ng/mL; P<0.05). There were no correlations between any biochemical parameters and Trail-Making Test, Stroop test, and PANSS N scores. There were no differences in RTIII among study groups. Strong negative correlation (P<0.001) was found between PANSS N scores and subjective pain threshold on the right lower limb. CONCLUSION The insensitivity to pain in schizophrenia is a complex phenomenon that is probably not related to changes in nociceptive pathways. Increase in β-endorphin level may be related to this issue, but it is uncertain if such concentration ensures analgesic effect. It is unknown if patients with schizophrenia in fact experience less pain. Cognitive impairment and excess negative symptoms may strongly influence the patient's expression of pain.
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- Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Geriatrics, Healthy Ageing Research Centre (HARC), Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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Glenn JJ, Michel BD, Franklin JC, Hooley JM, Nock MK. Pain analgesia among adolescent self-injurers. Psychiatry Res 2014; 220:921-6. [PMID: 25172611 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2013] [Revised: 07/06/2014] [Accepted: 08/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Although non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) involves self-inflicted physical harm, many self-injurers report feeling little or no pain during the act. Here we test: (1) whether the pain analgesia effects observed among adult self-injurers are also present among adolescents, and (2) three potential explanatory models proposing that habituation, dissociation, and/or self-criticism help explain the association between NSSI and pain analgesia among adolescents. Participants were 79 adolescents (12-19 years) recruited from the community who took part in a laboratory-based pain study. Results revealed that adolescent self-injurers have a higher pain threshold and greater pain endurance than non-injurers. Statistical mediation models revealed that the habituation and dissociation models were not supported; however, a self-critical style does mediate the association between NSSI and pain analgesia. The present findings extend earlier work by highlighting that a self-critical style may help to explain why self-injurers exhibit pain analgesia. Specifically, the tendency to experience self-critical thoughts in response to stressful events may represent a third variable that increases the likelihood of both NSSI and pain analgesia. Prospective experimental studies are needed to replicate and tease apart the direction of these associations, and may provide valuable leads in the development of effective treatments for this dangerous behavior problem.
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- Jeffrey J Glenn
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Stubbs B, Mitchell AJ, De Hert M, Correll CU, Soundy A, Stroobants M, Vancampfort D. The prevalence and moderators of clinical pain in people with schizophrenia: a systematic review and large scale meta-analysis. Schizophr Res 2014; 160:1-8. [PMID: 25458569 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2014] [Revised: 09/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND People with schizophrenia frequently have physical comorbidities that can cause pain. Experimental studies report reduced pain sensitivity among schizophrenia patients, but it remains unclear if clinically relevant pain is less prevalent in schizophrenia. METHOD We systematically searched major electronic databases from inception till 03/2014. Articles were included that reported the prevalence of clinical pain in people with schizophrenia. Two independent authors conducted searches, completed methodological quality assessment and extracted data. A random effects relative risks (RR) meta-analysis was conducted to determine the prevalence of all-cause and specific pain in schizophrenia, and the relative prevalence compared to the general population, and to assess moderators. RESULTS Altogether, 14 studies were included encompassing 242,703 individuals with schizophrenia (30.2-55.8 years) and 4,259,221 controls. Different types of pain were considered. The overall pooled prevalence of clinical pain in people with schizophrenia was 34.7% (95% CI=23.6-46.6). In the comparative analysis involving 7 studies with controls, the RR was 0.99 (95% CI=0.83-1.19). The pooled prevalence of headache among 94,043 individuals with schizophrenia was 29.9% (95% CI=3-69%) and the RR compared to 4,248,284 controls was 1.32 (95% CI=0.85-2.07). In moderator analyses, neither age, sex, study quality or pain assessment method influenced pain prevalence. CONCLUSION Clinical pain affects a third of people with schizophrenia and levels are similar with age- and sex-comparable controls. Future research is needed to determine if similar clinical pain prevalences in schizophrenia occur despite having more painful conditions, resulting from under-reporting, higher pain thresholds or lower help seeking behaviours.
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- Brendon Stubbs
- Faculty of Education and Health, University of Greenwich, Southwood Site, Avery Hill Road, Eltham, London SE9 2UG, UK.
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- Department of Psycho-oncology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK.
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- University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven, KU Leuven Departement of Neurosciences, Leuvensesteenweg 517, B-3070 Kortenberg, Belgium.
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- Zucker Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA.
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- Department of Physiotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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- University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven, KU Leuven Departement of Neurosciences, Leuvensesteenweg 517, B-3070 Kortenberg, Belgium.
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- University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven, KU Leuven Departement of Neurosciences, Leuvensesteenweg 517, B-3070 Kortenberg, Belgium; KU Leuven Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Tervuursevest 101, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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Jääskeläinen SK, Lindholm P, Valmunen T, Pesonen U, Taiminen T, Virtanen A, Lamusuo S, Forssell H, Hagelberg N, Hietala J, Pertovaara A. Variation in the dopamine D2 receptor gene plays a key role in human pain and its modulation by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Pain 2014; 155:2180-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.08.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Revised: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Newson PN, van den Buuse M, Martin S, Lynch-Frame A, Chahl LA. Effects of neonatal treatment with the TRPV1 agonist, capsaicin, on adult rat brain and behaviour. Behav Brain Res 2014; 272:55-65. [PMID: 24975423 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2014] [Revised: 06/16/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Treatment of neonatal rats with the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channel agonist, capsaicin, produces life-long loss of sensory neurons expressing TRPV1 channels. Previously it was shown that rats treated on day 2 of life with capsaicin had behavioural hyperactivity in a novel environment at 5-7 weeks of age and brain changes reminiscent of those found in subjects with schizophrenia. The objective of the present study was to investigate brain and behavioural responses of adult rats treated as neonates with capsaicin. It was found that the brain changes found at 5-7 weeks in rats treated as neonates with capsaicin persisted into adulthood (12 weeks) but were less in older rats (16-18 weeks). Increased prepulse inhibition (PPI) of acoustic startle was found in these rats at 8 and 12 weeks of age rather than the deficit commonly found in animal models of schizophrenia. Subjects with schizophrenia also have reduced flare responses to niacin and methylnicotinate proposed to be mediated by prostaglandin D2 (PGD2). Flare responses are accompanied by cutaneous plasma extravasation. It was found that the cutaneous plasma extravasation responses to methylnicotinate and PGD2 were reduced in capsaicin-treated rats. In conclusion, several neuroanatomical changes observed in capsaicin-treated rats, as well as the reduced cutaneous plasma extravasation responses, indicate that the role of TRPV1 channels in schizophrenia is worthy of investigation.
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- Penny N Newson
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia; Schizophrenia Research Institute, 405 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia; Schizophrenia Research Institute, 405 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia; Schizophrenia Research Institute, 405 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia.
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Schoepf D, Uppal H, Potluri R, Heun R. Physical comorbidity and its relevance on mortality in schizophrenia: a naturalistic 12-year follow-up in general hospital admissions. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2014; 264:3-28. [PMID: 23942824 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0436-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Schizophrenia is a major psychotic disorder with significant comorbidity and mortality. Patients with schizophrenia are said to suffer more type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and diabetogenic complications. However, there is little consistent evidence that comorbidity with physical diseases leads to excess mortality in schizophrenic patients. Consequently, we investigated whether the burden of physical comorbidity and its relevance on hospital mortality differed between patients with and without schizophrenia in a 12-year follow-up in general hospital admissions. During 1 January 2000 and 31 June 2012, 1418 adult patients with schizophrenia were admitted to three General Manchester NHS Hospitals. All comorbid diseases with a prevalemce ≥1% were compared with those of 14,180 age- and gender-matched hospital controls. Risk factors, i.e. comorbid diseases that were predictors for general hospital mortality were identified using multivariate logistic regression analyses. Compared with controls, schizophrenic patients had a higher proportion of emergency admissions (69.8 vs. 43.0%), an extended average length of stay at index hospitalization (8.1 vs. 3.4 days), a higher number of hospital admissions (11.5 vs. 6.3), a shorter length of survival (1895 vs. 2161 days), and a nearly twofold increased mortality rate (18.0 vs. 9.7%). Schizophrenic patients suffered more depression, T2DM, alcohol abuse, asthma, COPD, and twenty-three more diseases, many of them diabetic-related complications or other environmentally influenced conditions. In contrast, hypertension, cataract, angina, and hyperlipidaemia were less prevalent in the schizophrenia population compared to the control population. In deceased schizophrenic patients, T2DM was the most frequently recorded comorbidity, contributing to 31.4% of hospital deaths (only 14.4% of schizophrenic patients with comorbid T2DM survived the study period). Further predictors of general hospital mortality in schizophrenia were found to be alcoholic liver disease (OR = 10.3), parkinsonism (OR = 5.0), T1DM (OR = 3.8), non-specific renal failure (OR = 3.5), ischaemic stroke (OR = 3.3), pneumonia (OR = 3.0), iron-deficiency anaemia (OR = 2.8), COPD (OR = 2.8), and bronchitis (OR = 2.6). There were no significant differences in their impact on hospital mortality compared to control subjects with the same diseases except parkinsonism which was associated with higher mortality in the schizophrenia population compared with the control population. The prevalence of parkinsonism was significantly elevated in the 255 deceased schizophrenic patients (5.5 %) than in those 1,163 surviving the study period (0.8 %, OR = 5.0) and deceased schizophrenic patients had significantly more suffered extrapyramidal symptoms than deceased control subjects (5.5 vs. 1.5 %). Therefore patients with schizophrenia have a higher burden of physical comorbidity that is associated with a worse outcome in a 12-year follow-up of mortality in general hospitals compared with hospital controls. However, schizophrenic patients die of the same physical diseases as their peers without schizophrenia. The most relevant physical risk factors of general hospital mortality are T2DM, COPD and infectious respiratory complications, iron-deficiency anaemia, T1DM, unspecific renal failure, ischaemic stroke, and alcoholic liver disease. Additionally, parkinsonism is a major risk factor for general hospital mortality in schizophrenia. Thus, optimal monitoring and management of acute T2DM and COPD with its infectious respiratory complications, as well as the accurate detection and management of iron-deficiency anaemia, of diabetic-related long-term micro- and macrovascular complications, of alcoholic liver disease, and of extrapyramidal symptoms are of utmost relevance in schizophrenia.
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- Dieter Schoepf
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany,
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Ringen PA, Engh JA, Birkenaes AB, Dieset I, Andreassen OA. Increased mortality in schizophrenia due to cardiovascular disease - a non-systematic review of epidemiology, possible causes, and interventions. Front Psychiatry 2014; 5:137. [PMID: 25309466 PMCID: PMC4175996 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2014] [Accepted: 09/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is among the major causes of disability worldwide and the mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is significantly elevated. There is a growing concern that this health challenge is not fully understood and efficiently addressed. METHODS Non-systematic review using searches in PubMed on relevant topics as well as selection of references based on the authors' experience from clinical work and research in the field. RESULTS In most countries, the standardized mortality rate in schizophrenia is about 2.5, leading to a reduction in life expectancy between 15 and 20 years. A major contributor of the increased mortality is due to CVD, with CVD mortality ranging from 40 to 50% in most studies. Important causal factors are related to lifestyle, including poor diet, lack of physical activity, smoking, and substance abuse. Recent findings suggest that there are overlapping pathophysiology and genetics between schizophrenia and CVD-risk factors, further increasing the liability to CVD in schizophrenia. Many pharmacological agents used for treating psychotic disorders have side effects augmenting CVD risk. Although several CVD-risk factors can be effectively prevented and treated, the provision of somatic health services to people with schizophrenia seems inadequate. Further, there is a sparseness of studies investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions in schizophrenia, and there is little knowledge about effective programs targeting physical health in this population. DISCUSSION The risk for CVD and CVD-related deaths in people with schizophrenia is increased, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully known. Coordinated interventions in different health care settings could probably reduce the risk. There is an urgent need to develop and implement effective programs to increase life expectancy in schizophrenia, and we argue that mental health workers should be more involved in this important task.
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- Petter Andreas Ringen
- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway ; Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Vestfold Hospital Trust , Tønsberg , Norway
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway ; Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Norway
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- NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway ; Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Norway
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Aberrant pain perception in direct and indirect non-suicidal self-injury: an empirical test of Joiner's interpersonal theory. Compr Psychiatry 2013; 54:694-701. [PMID: 23369531 DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2012] [Revised: 12/12/2012] [Accepted: 12/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Using a community sample (N=148) we examined pressure pain perception in 3 study groups--people who engaged in non-suicidal self-injury, people who engaged in indirect forms of self-injury, and non-self-injuring controls. In so doing we tested hypotheses derived from Joiner's (2005) interpersonal theory of suicide. Consistent with previous studies and with Joiner's model, people who engaged in NSSI endured pain for significantly longer than non-self-injuring controls. Importantly, pain endurance in the Indirect self-injury group was comparable to that found in the NSSI group and significantly elevated relative to controls. This pattern of results suggests that abnormal pain perception may not be specific to forms of self-injury (e.g., NSSI) that involve immediate physical pain (e.g., cutting). Our findings further suggest that the concept of acquired capability for suicide might have relevance for both direct and indirect forms of self-injurious behavior.
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Becker A, Geisslinger G, Murín R, Grecksch G, Höllt V, Zimmer A, Schröder H. Cannabinoid-mediated diversity of antinociceptive efficacy of parecoxib in Wistar and Sprague Dawley rats in the chronic constriction injury model of neuropathic pain. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2013; 386:369-82. [DOI: 10.1007/s00210-013-0839-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Patients with schizophrenia may have altered pain perception, as suggested by clinical reports of pain insensitivity, and recent neuroimaging findings. Here, we examined neural responses to an aversive electrical stimulus and the immediate anticipation of such a stimulus using fMRI and a classical conditioning paradigm, which involved pairing an electrical shock with a neutral photograph. Fifteen men with schizophrenia and 13 healthy men, matched for demographic characteristics, electrical stimulation level and scan movement, were studied. The shock induced robust responses in midbrain, thalamus, cingulate gyrus, insula and somatosensory cortex in both groups. However, compared to controls, the schizophrenic patients displayed significantly lower activation of the middle insula (p(FWE)=0.002, T=5.72, cluster size=24 voxels). Moreover, the lack of insula reactivity in the schizophrenia group was predicted by the magnitude of positive symptoms (r=-0.46, p=0.04). In contrast, there were no significant differences between the two groups in the magnitude of neural responses during anticipation of the shock. These findings provide support for the existence of a basic deficit in interoceptive perception in schizophrenia, which could play a role in the generation and/or maintenance of psychotic states.
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Emotional distress and pain tolerance in obsessive-compulsive disorder. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 2012; 43:981-7. [PMID: 22561049 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2011] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physical pain can reduce emotional distress, perhaps especially the psychic pain of guilt. This implies that people who continually experience guilt may exhibit greater tolerance for pain relative to people who do not. METHODS To test this hypothesis, we administered a pressure algometer procedure to assess pain tolerance in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) plagued by moral obsessions (e.g., concerns about harming others, violating religious values), in patients with OCD with non-moral obsessions (e.g., regarding contamination and symmetry), and in healthy comparison subjects. RESULTS The results indicated that the OCD groups did not differ in levels of guilt, emotional distress tolerance, or in pain endurance. However, when we collapsed across subtypes, OCD subjects endured pain significantly longer than did healthy subjects. LIMITATIONS Limitations included small sample size and use of a sample with complex OCD symptoms that were, in some instances, difficult to categorize. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that individuals with severe OCD might be willing to endure physical pain as a distraction from emotional distress, an expression of negative self-worth, or as a means to gain control over some aspect of suffering.
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Jarcho JM, Mayer EA, Jiang ZK, Feier NA, London ED. Pain, affective symptoms, and cognitive deficits in patients with cerebral dopamine dysfunction. Pain 2012; 153:744-754. [PMID: 22386471 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Revised: 11/29/2011] [Accepted: 01/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Converging preclinical, and human epidemiological, neuroimaging, and genetic evidence suggests a central role for dopamine neurotransmission in modulating pain perception and analgesia. Dysregulation in dopamine signaling may modulate the experience of pain both directly, by enhancing or diminishing the propagation of nociceptive signals, and indirectly, by influencing affective and cognitive processes, which affect the expectation, experience, and interpretation of nociceptive signals. Hypersensitivity to pain and high rates of comorbid chronic pain are common in disorders linked with deficits in dopamine system function, including disorders of mood and affect, substance abuse, and Parkinson disease. Hyposensitivity to pain, however, is common in patients with schizophrenia, which has been linked with excessive dopamine neurotransmission. Although patients are typically affected most by the primary symptoms of their disorders, alterations in pain perception may further increase the burden of their illness, compromising their quality of life. The present review focuses on this relationship, and discusses clinical and potential therapeutic implications for both patients with dopamine-related disorders and those with chronic pain syndromes.
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- Johanna M Jarcho
- National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Department of Medicine, Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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OBJECTIVE Whether schizophrenic patients are hypoalgesic or feel pain in the same manner as unaffected individuals can affect the primary care of schizophrenic patients, which often involves an assessment of pain severity made by a medical provider. This study was developed to explore the pain sensitivity of schizophrenics under conditions similar to those of a medical examination that included investigating for sites of pain. METHODS We developed 2 experimental models of pain induction using either pressure or ischemia and used them with 35 schizophrenic patients and 35 controls to record: (1) the stimulus intensity required to induce moderate pain; and (2) the pain intensity induced by a predetermined level of pressure. Clinical data were also collected for the schizophrenic group. RESULTS Schizophrenic patients needed less pressure (P=0.006) and a shorter duration of ischemia (P<0.001) than controls to record moderate pain, and they felt more pain from a fixed pressure stimulus (P<0.001). Pain histories for the previous 6 months and the heart rate variations that occurred during the tests did not differ between the groups. Pain responses were unrelated to the clinical characteristics of the schizophrenic patients, although hallucination production correlated with the pain felt during the fixed pressure test. DISCUSSION Under these conditions, schizophrenic patients were hypersensitive to pain induction compared with normal individuals. The hypoalgesia typically associated with schizophrenic patients may correspond to fewer than normal reports of pain, rather than to impaired sensations of pain. This should be taken into account during routine medical practice.
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Social anhedonia is associated with neural abnormalities during face emotion processing. Neuroimage 2011; 58:935-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2010] [Revised: 06/10/2011] [Accepted: 06/23/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Lin HC, Huang CC, Chen SF, Chen YH. Increased risk of avoidable hospitalization among patients with schizophrenia. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE 2011; 56:171-8. [PMID: 21443824 DOI: 10.1177/070674371105600307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Some studies suggest that hospitalizations for certain conditions, called ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs), are potentially avoidable. However, almost no study has addressed the risk of ACSC hospitalizations specifically for patients with severe mental illness. Our study examines the risk of ACSC hospitalizations among patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan, using a 5-year, nationwide, population-based database. METHODS Our study included 2503 patients with schizophrenia and 20 024 matched patients without schizophrenia. Poisson regression analysis was then performed in which the number of ACSC hospitalizations from 2002 to 2006 (including ruptured appendix, asthma, cellulitis, congestive heart failure, diabetes, gangrene, hypokalemia, immunizable conditions, malignant hypertension, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, and perforated or bleeding ulcer) was regressed against the independent variable of whether or not a patient had a schizophrenia diagnosis in 2001. RESULTS Results show that 9.83% of patients with schizophrenia and 4.71% of patients in the comparison group experienced ACSC hospitalizations from 2002 to 2006. After adjusting for each patient's sex, age, level of urbanization, geographic location of residence within a community, and monthly income, patients with schizophrenia had a 3.26-fold higher (95% CI 3.00 to 3.54, P < 0.001) risk of experiencing ACSC hospitalizations than the comparison participants. After excluding the conditions of diabetes, hypertension, and asthma, patients with schizophrenia independently had a 2.46-fold higher risk of ACSC hospitalizations (95% CI 2.12 to 2.86, P < 0.001), compared with participants in the comparison group. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that schizophrenia patients are at a higher risk for hospitalizations owing to ACSCs, despite a national health insurance system providing universal coverage to citizens.
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- Herng-Ching Lin
- School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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A possible mechanism of sadism. Med Hypotheses 2011; 76:32-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2010] [Revised: 08/02/2010] [Accepted: 08/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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TRP Channels and Psychiatric Disorders. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2011; 704:987-1009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0265-3_51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Wylie KP, Tregellas JR. The role of the insula in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2010; 123:93-104. [PMID: 20832997 PMCID: PMC2957503 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2010] [Revised: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 08/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Involvement of the insular cortex is a common finding in neuroanatomical studies of schizophrenia, yet its contribution to disease pathology remains unknown. This review describes the normal function of the insula and examines pathology of this region in schizophrenia. The insula is a cortical structure with extensive connections to many areas of the cortex and limbic system. It integrates external sensory input with the limbic system and is integral to the awareness of the body's state (interoception). Many deficits observed in schizophrenia involve these functions and may relate to insula pathology. Furthermore, reports describing deficits caused by lesions of the insula parallel deficits observed in schizophrenia. Examples of insula-related functions that are altered in schizophrenia include the processing of both visual and auditory emotional information, pain, and neuronal representations of the self. The last of these functions, processing representations of the self, plays a key role in discriminating between self-generated and external information, suggesting that insula dysfunction may contribute to hallucinations, a cardinal feature of schizophrenia.
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- Korey P Wylie
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 13001 E. 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045, United States
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Autié A, Montreuil M, Moulier V, Braha S, Wojakiewicz A, Januel D. Douleur et schizophrénie : mythe et réalité. Encephale 2009; 35:297-303. [DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2008.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2007] [Accepted: 04/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Are Patients With Schizophrenia Insensitive to Pain? A Reconsideration of the Question. Clin J Pain 2009; 25:244-52. [DOI: 10.1097/ajp.0b013e318192be97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The specificity of referential thinking: a comparison of schizotypy and social anxiety. Psychiatry Res 2009; 165:78-87. [PMID: 19059651 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2007] [Revised: 09/26/2007] [Accepted: 10/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ideas of reference are considered hallmarks of schizophrenia-related psychopathology. However, the specificity of referential thinking to schizophrenia-related psychopathology has not been examined empirically. Schizotypy reflects the latent liability for schizophrenia and is associated with referential thinking. Referential thinking may occur in other forms of psychopatholoy, such as social anxiety, which is characterized by cognitive distortions in which the thoughts and judgments of others are viewed as having reference to the self. Our primary aim was to examine the specificity of referential thinking to schizotypy. A sample of 830 college students completed a psychometric screening, of which 102 met criteria for inclusion in one of three groups: schizotypy (n=30), social anxiety (n=28), normal controls (n=44). Participants completed the Referential Thinking Scale (REF), and other measures of schizotypy (Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, Peters et al Delusion Index, Schizophrenia Proneness Scale, Social Anhedonia Scale), affect, and intellectual functioning. The schizotypy group exhibited higher REF scores than both comparison groups. REF scores were associated with other schizotypy measures and loaded onto a positive schizotypy factor, but not onto a negative schizotypy or negative affect factor. These findings support the specificity of high levels of referential thinking to schizotypy and the construct validity of the REF.
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Hooley JM. Self-harming behavior: Introduction to the special series on non-suicidal self-injury and suicide. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appsy.2008.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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[Schizophrenia and pain reactivity]. Presse Med 2008; 37:1561-8. [PMID: 18774679 DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2008.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2007] [Revised: 04/09/2008] [Accepted: 05/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Medical practitioners do not for a long time pay enough attention to patient's pain. This approach is in the line of society feelings. Pain was long consider to be a contingency to withstand as showed in Christian's bible or Stoicism's principle. Changes in mentality appear in present times. It Seems obvious that for sociological and scientific reasons pain's care in medical and psychiatric disorders is now an important subject. Recent research in autistic disorders suggest that insensitivity observed in autism is not and analgesic phenomenon but a different behavioural reactivity to pain. Prevalence of schizophrenic disorder is from 0.5 to 1%. It is also a complex disorder that has defied decades of concerted efforts to uncover its origins and attenuate its symptoms. The most promising hypotheses suggest that neurodevelopmental impairment increases the risk of later schizophrenia. Most of recent researches in this topic did focus to trait or state markers. According to the vulnerability models of schizophrenia, trait marker are clinical, psychological, physiological, anatomical or cognitive impairments found in patients with schizophrenia during all the course of the illness and even before the onset. Several lines of evidence (case report, epidemiological studies, experimental studies) suggest that patients with schizophrenia shows a relative insensitivity to physical pain. We will review and critic the scientific literature in this specific topic. We will see if datas are relevant with the neurodevelopmental hypothesis and vulnerability models. METHODS An OLDMEDLINE/MEDLINE query was performed to identify 50 articles relevant to our subject. 9 were case report or case series, 21 were clinical or epidemiological studies, 15 were experimental studies and we also found 5 previous review. RESULTS Clinical and experimental data strongly suggest a decrease of Behavioural Reactivity to Pain (BRP) but there is a lack of argument to prove a real analgesia. Because schizophrenia is a severe disease with impairment in communication and social skills it may be very difficult to affirm that the insensitivity to pain does really exist for patients. It seems inappropriate at this point to speak about insensitivity or analgesia. We could hypothesis that the decrease of BRP is less a consequence of analgesia than a different way to express emotion in general and pain in particular. It is well known that patients with schizophrenia show communication and thinking impairment, not adapted social skills and also a lack of body representation. However, this decrease of behavioural response seems to be frequent and may be explore by objective research protocol to understand if patients don't feel pain or probably don't express pain by adapted social skills. Furthermore, decrease of BRP may take place in a comprehensive theory of schizophrenia. in the line of stress-vulnerability model. Impairment or lack of behavioural pain reactivity could induce an increasing anxiety level for patient with vulnerability to schizophrenia and a higher risk of onset of the pathology. We may argue that pain stimuli would conduct to a nociceptive stress witch couldn't discharge by usual ways of regulation and behavioural expression of pain. Exploration and interview about pain reactivity in vulnerable to schizophrenia subjects could be interesting to increase a the amount of information in a vulnerability check-up. Further studies in this axis may be useful to test this hypothesis.
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Hypoalgesia in schizophrenia is independent of antipsychotic drugs: a systematic quantitative review of experimental studies. Pain 2007; 138:70-78. [PMID: 18160219 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2007] [Revised: 10/31/2007] [Accepted: 11/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Diminished sensitivity to pain in schizophrenia has been reported since the early works of Bleuler [Bleuler E. Textbook of psychiatry (trans. Brill HA, 1951). New York: Dover Publications; 1911] and Kraepelin [Kraepelin E. Dementia praecox and paraphrenia. Edinburgh, Scotland: E and S Livingstone; 1919]. Over the last decade, experimental studies have measured pain perception in schizophrenia and produced mixed results. This meta-analysis sought to determine if the scientific literature confirms the hypothesized hypoalgesia in schizophrenia. The search was performed with computerised literature databases. A study was retained in the meta-analysis if: (i) it comprised a group of schizophrenia patients, compared to a control group of healthy volunteers; and (ii) pain was measured via experimental procedures (e.g. thermal, electrical, or mechanical stimuli). Using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis-2, effect size estimates of the differences in pain scores (all pain scores derived from all pain tests) between schizophrenia patients and healthy volunteers were calculated. Eleven studies were included in the meta-analysis. For the composite analysis, a positive, moderate, and significant effect size estimate emerged (N=497; Hedges's g=0.437; p=0.005), suggesting that patients with schizophrenia show a diminished response to experimentally-induced pain. Secondary analyses showed that: (i) drug-free patients also have hypoalgesic responses; and that (ii) sensory thresholds are increased in schizophrenia patients. This meta-analysis substantiates the hypothesis of a diminished pain response in schizophrenia. The study also suggests that hypoalgesia in schizophrenia cannot be solely explained by the effects of antipsychotic drugs, and that it may not be a pain-specific blunted response. Further studies are warranted to determine the clinical and biological correlates, and the social and health consequences, of hypoalgesia in schizophrenia.
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Tsay JH, Lee CH, Hsu YJ, Wang PJ, Bai YM, Chou YJ, Huang N. Disparities in appendicitis rupture rate among mentally ill patients. BMC Public Health 2007; 7:331. [PMID: 18005406 PMCID: PMC2190764 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2006] [Accepted: 11/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Many studies have been carried out that focus on mental patients' access to care for their mental illness, but very few pay attention on these same patients' access to care for their physical diseases. Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency. Our population-based study was to test for any possible association between mental illness and perforated appendicitis. We hypothesized that there are significant disparities in access to timely surgical care between appendicitis patients with and without mental illness, and more specifically, between patients with schizophrenia and those with another major mental illness. METHODS Using the National Health Insurance (NHI) hospital-discharge data, we compared the likelihood of perforated appendix among 97,589 adults aged 15 and over who were hospitalized for acute appendicitis in Taiwan between the years 1997 to 2001. Among all the patients admitted for appendicitis, the outcome measure was the odds of appendiceal rupture vs. appendicitis that did not result in a ruptured appendix. RESULTS After adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES) and hospital characteristics, the presence of schizophrenia was associated with a 2.83 times higher risk of having a ruptured appendix (odds ratio [OR], 2.83; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.20-3.64). However, the presence of affective psychoses (OR, 1.15; 95% CI: 0.77-1.73) or other mental disorders (OR, 1.58; 95% CI: 0.89-2.81) was not a significant predictor for a ruptured appendix. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that given the fact that the NHI program reduces financial barriers to care for mentally ill patients, they are still at a disadvantage for obtaining timely treatment for their physical diseases. Of patients with a major mental illness, schizophrenic patients may be the most vulnerable ones for obtaining timely surgical care.
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- Department of Social Work, College of Social Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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Chahl LA. TRP's: links to schizophrenia? Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2007; 1772:968-77. [PMID: 17587552 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2007.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2007] [Revised: 05/15/2007] [Accepted: 05/15/2007] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disorder the cause of which is unknown. It is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder that results from an interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Direct evidence for links between schizophrenia and TRP channels is lacking. However, several aspects of the pathophysiology of the disorder point to a possible involvement of TRP channels. In this review evidence for links between TRP channels and schizophrenia with respect to neurodevelopment, dopaminergic and cannabinoid systems, thermoregulation, and sensory processes, is discussed. Investigation of these links holds the prospect of a new understanding of schizophrenia with resultant therapeutic advances.
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- Loris A Chahl
- Centre for Mental Health Studies and Schizophrenia Research Institute, James Fletcher Hospital, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, 2308 Australia.
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Howard PB, El-Mallakh P, Rayens MK, Clark JJ. Comorbid medical illnesses and perceived general health among adult recipients of Medicaid Mental Health Services. Issues Ment Health Nurs 2007; 28:255-74. [PMID: 17454279 DOI: 10.1080/01612840601172593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The purpose of this retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study was to measure self-reported frequencies of medical problems, overall health, and health-related quality of life among mental health consumers. The sample included 787 adults who had received a mental health service paid for by Medicaid over a one-year period. The self-administered questionnaire included the 12-item Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Short-Form (SF) Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales, and items about physical health problems and health-related quality of life. The majority of respondents (83.3%) reported that their general health was poor or fair. Frequently reported medical problems included arthritis, migraines, and high blood pressure. Knowledge of physical problems in persons with mental illness is essential for advanced practice nurses.
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- Patricia B Howard
- College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, USA.
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Becker A, Grecksch G, Schröder H. Pain sensitivity is altered in animals after subchronic ketamine treatment. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2006; 189:237-47. [PMID: 17016710 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0557-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2006] [Accepted: 08/08/2006] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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RATIONALE Clinical observations have shown that pain sensitivity is altered in some schizophrenic patients. OBJECTIVES To study alterations in pain sensitivity, the ketamine model in schizophrenia research was employed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Rats were subchronically injected with the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine (Ket, ten injections of 30 mg/kg, one injection per day over a period of 10 days). Two weeks after treatment completion, the animals' pain sensitivity was assayed in the hot plate test and they were subjected to electrical stimulation of the tail root. In addition, the effect of morphine was studied. RESULTS In group-housed animals, there was no difference between Ket-injected animals and control rats as measured in both nociceptive tests. In singly housed Ket-injected rats, pain threshold was increased in the electrical stimulation test. This suggests that stress due to single housing might be essential for modifications of pain sensitivity. Moreover, the antinociceptive effect of morphine was modified after single housing. Interestingly, the effect of morphine on locomotor activity was similar in both groups. In group-housed rats, mu receptor binding was unchanged in the frontal cortex, whereas Ket-injected animals had decreased levels in the hippocampus. In singly housed animals, mu receptor binding in Ket-injected rats increased in the frontal cortex and decreased in the hippocampus. (35)S-GTPgamma-S binding increased in the frontal cortex in both singly housed groups, but remained unchanged in the hippocampus. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that the ketamine model might be useful for studying altered pain sensitivity in schizophrenia. Moreover, the data suggest that modifications in mu opioid receptor binding contribute to this phenomenon.
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- Axel Becker
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany.
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Elman I, Borsook D, Lukas SE. Food intake and reward mechanisms in patients with schizophrenia: implications for metabolic disturbances and treatment with second-generation antipsychotic agents. Neuropsychopharmacology 2006; 31:2091-120. [PMID: 16541087 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Obesity is highly prevalent among patients with schizophrenia and is associated with detrimental health consequences. Although excessive consumption of fast food and pharmacotherapy with such second-generation antipsychotic agents (SGAs) as clozapine and olanzapine has been implicated in the schizophrenia/obesity comorbidity, the pathophysiology of this link remains unclear. Here, we propose a mechanism based on brain reward function, a relevant etiologic factor in both schizophrenia and overeating. A comprehensive literature search on neurobiology of schizophrenia and of eating behavior was performed. The collected articles were critically reviewed and relevant data were extracted and summarized within four key areas: (1) energy homeostasis, (2) food reward and hedonics, (3) reward function in schizophrenia, and (4) metabolic effects of the SGAs. A mesolimbic hyperdopaminergic state may render motivational/incentive reward system insensitive to low salience/palatability food. This, together with poor cognitive control from hypofunctional prefrontal cortex and enhanced hedonic impact of food, owing to exaggerated opioidergic drive (clinically manifested as pain insensitivity), may underlie unhealthy eating habits in patients with schizophrenia. Treatment with SGAs purportedly improves dopamine-mediated reward aspects, but at the cost of increased appetite and worsened or at least not improved opiodergic capacity. These effects can further deteriorate eating patterns. Pathophysiological and therapeutic implications of these insights need further validation via prospective clinical trials and neuroimaging studies.
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- Igor Elman
- Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
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Too much or too little pain: The dichotomy of pain sensitivity in psychotic versus other psychiatric disorders. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02629336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Jochum T, Letzsch A, Greiner W, Wagner G, Sauer H, Bär KJ. Influence of antipsychotic medication on pain perception in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2006; 142:151-6. [PMID: 16631931 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2004] [Accepted: 09/17/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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A number of clinical observations indicate that pain processing might be disturbed in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Only a few studies have investigated pain perception in schizophrenia. The main objective of this study was the investigation of thresholds of warmth perception (WP), thermal pain onset (TPO) and thermal pain tolerance (TPT) in acute schizophrenic patients and the influence of antipsychotic medication on the patients' responses. We investigated 23 schizophrenic subjects who had been not received antipsychotic treatment for 8 weeks, and we then reassessed them 3 days later after the introduction of neuroleptics. Acute symptoms of schizophrenia were measured using the Scales for the Assessment of Positive and Negative Symptoms. Thresholds were determined by a contact thermode on both volar wrists. Schizophrenic patients showed significantly increased thresholds of WP and TPO relative to healthy controls. Antipsychotics did not alter pain thresholds. We found no correlation between pain perception and psychometric scales. Our findings demonstrate altered warmth and heat pain perception in acute schizophrenia. We believe that our findings can be attributed to information-processing abnormalities of the disorder and that they are not specific to pain processing, per se, since both WP and TPO were significantly different. Future studies should evaluate attentional deficits in schizophrenia in relation to pain perception.
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- Thomas Jochum
- Department of Psychiatry, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
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Newson P, Lynch-Frame A, Roach R, Bennett S, Carr V, Chahl LA. Intrinsic sensory deprivation induced by neonatal capsaicin treatment induces changes in rat brain and behaviour of possible relevance to schizophrenia. Br J Pharmacol 2006; 146:408-18. [PMID: 16041396 PMCID: PMC1576292 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0706349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Schizophrenia is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disorder with origins in the prenatal or neonatal period. Brains from subjects with schizophrenia have enlarged ventricles, reduced cortical thickness (CT) and increased neuronal density in the prefrontal cortex compared with those from normal subjects. Subjects with schizophrenia have reduced pain sensitivity and niacin skin flare responses, suggesting that capsaicin-sensitive primary afferent neurons might be abnormal in schizophrenia. This study tested the hypothesis that intrinsic somatosensory deprivation, induced by neonatal capsaicin treatment, causes changes in the brains of rats similar to those found in schizophrenia. Wistar rats were treated with capsaicin, 50 mg kg(-1) subcutaneously, or vehicle (control) at 24-36 h of life. At 5-7 weeks behavioural observations were made, and brains removed, fixed and sectioned. The mean body weight of capsaicin-treated rats was not significantly different from control, but the mean brain weight of male, but not female, rats, was significantly lower than control. Capsaicin-treated rats were hyperactive compared with controls. The hyperactivity was abolished by haloperidol. Coronal brain sections of capsaicin-treated rats had smaller cross-sectional areas, reduced CT, larger ventricles and aqueduct, smaller hippocampal area and reduced corpus callosum thickness, than brain sections from control rats. Neuronal density was increased in several cortical areas and the caudate putamen, but not in the visual cortex. It is concluded that neonatal capsaicin treatment of rats produces brain changes that are similar to those found in brains of subjects with schizophrenia.
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- Penny Newson
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
- Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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