The impact of chronic pain on creative ideation: An examination of the underlying attention-related psychophysiological mechanisms.

Gubler, Danièle; Rominger, Christian; grosse Holtforth, Martin; Egloff, Niklaus; Frickmann, Frank; Goetze, Benjamin; Harnik, Michael; Streitberger, Konrad; Zeiss, Stephan; Troche, Stefan (2022). The impact of chronic pain on creative ideation: An examination of the underlying attention-related psychophysiological mechanisms. European journal of pain, 26(8), pp. 1768-1780. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/ejp.2000

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BACKGROUND

Attentional deficits in patients with chronic pain are common and well-studied. Yet, few studies have examined the effects of chronic pain on more complex cognitive abilities that rely on well-functioning attentional systems. With the current study, we aimed to investigate whether the impact of chronic pain on attention affects creative ideation as measured with an adaptation of the alternate uses task (AUT).

METHODS

Performance in the AUT was compared between 33 patients suffering from chronic pain and 33 healthy matched controls. While solving the task, EEG was recorded to measure the degree of internally directed attention assessed by means of task-related power (TRP) changes.

RESULTS

The results revealed that patients with chronic pain generated less creative ideas than healthy controls. This lack of performance was accompanied by lower event-related synchronization (ERS), especially in right parietal sites. Furthermore, these ERS differences explained one-third of the inter-group variance in AUT performance.

CONCLUSIONS

These results suggest that performance decrements in creative ideation in patients with chronic pain may be at least partly attributable to attentional impairments associated with chronic pain.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology > Centre of Competence for Psychosomatic Medicine
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > Clinic and Policlinic for Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics

UniBE Contributor:

Gubler, Danièle Anne, Grosse Holtforth, Martin, Egloff, Niklaus, Harnik, Michael, Streitberger, Konrad Markus, Zeiss, Stephan, Troche, Stefan

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1090-3801

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

29 Jun 2022 09:43

Last Modified:

29 Jun 2023 00:25

Publisher DOI:

10.1002/ejp.2000

PubMed ID:

35761767

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/171006

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/171006

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