Brain responses to vestibular pain and its anticipation in women with Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8688283	NeuroImage: Clinical	2017	44 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Women with GPPPD are characterized by increased subjective and brain responses to vestibular pain and, to a lesser extent, its anticipation, with fear and anxiety associated with responses to pain, supporting the introduction of anticipatory fear as a criterion of GPPPD in DSM-5.

Keywords

VAS vmPFC VLPFC OFC SPM8 perigenual anterior cingulate cortex DLPFC TR/TE Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale SAS DSM-5 aMCC IBS SII SPSS PVD PacC standard deviation statistical package for social sciences Provoked Vestibulodynia functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI SMA Repetition Time/Echo Time irritable bowel syndrome STAI PASS Number State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Fibromyalgia ventrolateral prefrontal cortex orbitofrontal cortex anterior midcingulate cortex dorsolateral prefrontal cortex Secondary somatosensory cortex visual analogue scale supplementary motor area Statistical Analysis Software healthy controls ventromedial prefrontal cortex