Sensation of pain and empathy in patients with pain-predominant multisomatoform disorder – Results of the PISO Imaging Study
M Noll-Hussong, A Otti, A Wohlschläger, C Zimmer, P Henningsen, H Gündel · Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie · 2011 · Heft 02
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Zusammenfassung
Patients with severe and disabling pain which cannot be explained by underlying organic pathology are common in all levels of health care and are typically difficult to treat for physicians as well as for mental health specialists. In this naturalistic fMRI-study using a 3T Scanner and psychometric measures we compared healthy controls with patients suffering from pain-predominant multisomatoform disorder focusing both on task evoked and intrinsic properties of brain function. We could show that the control group exhibits a higher activation of the left perigenual ACC in an empathetic pain paradigm presenting hu…
