Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7278110 | Biological Psychology | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Strong alterations of night sleep (e.g., sleep deprivation, insomnia) have appeared to affect pain in inducing hyperalgesic changes. However, it has remained unclear whether everyday variations of night sleep in healthy individuals have any influence on pain processing. Forty healthy subjects were studied by portable polysomnography (PSG) and sleep questionnaire during two non-consecutive nights at home. Experimental pain parameters (pressure pain threshold, temporal summationâ¯=â¯TS, conditioned pain modulationâ¯=â¯CPM) and situational pain catastrophizing (Situational Catastrophizing Questionnaireâ¯=â¯SCQ) were always assessed the evening before and the morning after sleep recording in a pain laboratory. Linear regression analyses were computed to test the prediction of overnight changes in pain by different sleep parameters. Significant prediction of changes in pain parameters by sleep parameters was limited (2 out of 12 analyses), indicating that everyday variations in sleep under non-pathological and low stress conditions are only weakly associated with pain.
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Authors
Anna Julia Karmann, Christoph Lauer, Elisabeth Ziegler, Lena Killian, Claudia Horn-Hofmann, Stefan Lautenbacher,