14 results match your criteria: "GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine[Affiliation]"
J Pain
December 2024
Interdepartmental Pain Center, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplants, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Among the methods for cognitive control of pain, the suggestions for analgesia-direct or indirect-have been widely and successfully used in experimental and clinical trials. The primary aim of this study was to contribute to the debate about the difference in the effectiveness of indirect and direct suggestions for the management of experimental pain in the ordinary state of consciousness. The secondary aim of the study was to ascertain the role of hypnotizability and expectation of pain relief in the suggestions' effect.
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January 2024
Aplysia APS, Education Programme Partner, University of Pisa, Florence, Italy.
Objectives: Although the relationship between traumatic experiences (TEs) and psychosomatic manifestations (pain, somatization, somatosensory amplification [SSA], and alexithymia) has been widely described, very few studies have investigated how these variables correlate with each other and with a history of TEs. The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how current psychosomatic manifestations are correlated with major and minor adult- and childhood TEs.
Methods: One hundred and forty-six patients (91 with pain) from the Pisa Gift Institute for Integrative Medicine Psychosomatics Lab.
Psychiatr Q
June 2023
Education Programme Partner, Aplysia APS, University of Pisa, Florence, Italy.
Although previous studies have shown that psychiatric and personality disorders are more prevalent in chronic pain than in pain-free groups, few studies have investigated the prevalence of personality disorders (PerDs) in patients with chronic pain with and without a psychiatric comorbidity. The aim of the present study was therefore designed to investigate the burden of PerDs on the prevalence and perception of chronic pain in patients with and without psychiatric comorbidity. 232 patients from the Gift Institute for Integrative Medicine in Pisa, Italy, of which n = 161 (69.
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April 2023
GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, Pisa, Italy.
Although the belief that hypnotizability is a mental dysfunction has been refuted over time, there is still research today that seeks to explore and clarify this preconception. The results of recent research indicate that, on the contrary, greater psychopathology is more frequent in subjects with low hypnotic susceptibility. Using the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale type A (SHSS-A) for hypnotizability, Symptom Checklist-Revised (SCL-90-R) for psychopathology, and the Somatosensory Amplification Scale (SSAS) and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) for psychosomatic dimensions, we found no relationship between baseline psychopathology, alexithymia and hypnotizability in 69 subjects with chronic pain in this retrospective observational study.
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April 2023
Department Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Objectives: Although neurobiological research has shown that interoception plays a role in the perception of pain and its chronification, the relationship between interoceptive sensitivity and pain has not been definitively confirmed by clinical studies. The aim of this study was therefore to better understand the relationship between interoceptive sensitivity, somatization, and clinical pain, and to identify any differences in the interoceptive sensitivity of patients with recurrent vs. chronic pain.
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January 2022
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Research Center for Behavior Assessment (CRAMC), Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain-ALGOS, 43007 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Research has shown that the confinement measures implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 can have negative effects on people's lives at multiple levels. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to better understand the mental, physical, and socio-economic status of adults living in Spain during the late stages of the state of emergency caused by COVID-19. Five hundred and forty-four individuals responded to an online survey between 3 June and 30 July 2020.
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January 2022
GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, Pisa, Italy.
The assumption that hypnotic analgesia produces placebo effects is controversial. The cognitive dimension that can distinguish hypnosis from placebo analgesia has been suggested as hypnotic susceptibility. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of the relationship between patient and therapist, assumed to produce the placebo effect, in the clinical context of hypnotic treatment for pain.
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November 2021
Lab. of Psychosomatic, GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
Social distancing measures during the lockdown have had a negative impact on chronic pain patients' function. Research, however, has only focused on the early stages of the first lockdowns. The aim of this study was to improve the understanding of the effects of COVID-19 social distancing measures on individuals with chronic pain living in Spain during the late stages of the lockdown.
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April 2021
Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Objectives: Somatosensory amplification (SA) has been described as an important feature of somatoform disorders, and an "amplifying somatic style" has been reported as a negative connotation of body perception. As widespread pain (WSP) in fibromyalgia (FM) is due to a central sensitization (CS) rather than organic alterations, there has been discussion as to whether FM is equivalent to or distinct from somatization disorder (SD). Assuming SD and FM are two distinct entities, an increase in somatic amplification should be expected only in subjects who have SD, regardless of the type of pain they experience.
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April 2020
Aplysia Onlus, GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, Pisa, Italy. Electronic address:
Chronic pain is a frequent condition that affects an estimated 20% of people worldwide, accounting for 15%-20% of doctors' appointments (Treede et al., 2015). It lacks the acute warning function of physiologic nociception, and instead involves the activation of multiple neurophysiologic mechanisms in the somatosensory system, a complex neuronal network under the control of powerful autoregulatory loops and able to undergo rapid neuroplastic alteration (Verdu et al.
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November 2018
Aplysia Onlus, GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, Pisa, Italy.
Poor emotional awareness (EA) seems to play an important role in the aetiology of functional somatic complaints featuring pain as a form of somatisation. The aim of this study was to shed more light on this relationship by investigating the links between pain, somatisation, and emotional awareness in a nonclinical population of 445 children aged 6-10. Assessing pain through the Children's Somatisation Inventory (CSI), a very high percentage of the entire sample complained of experiencing pain at least one site (84.
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December 2018
Aplysia onlus, GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine, p.za Cairoli 12, 56127, Pisa, Italy.
Recalling an event impairs an individual's later ability to recall related knowledge. Impairment in this retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) produces a dysfunction in autobiographical memory. This, like somatic symptoms, has been documented in trauma and sexual abuse survivors.
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March 2017
Dept. Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, Pisa University, Pisa, Italy. Electronic address:
The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of explicit suggestions of analgesia and of the activation of the Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control (DNIC) by cold pressor test on pain perception and heart rate in healthy participants with high (highs, N=18), low (lows, N=18) and intermediate scores of hypnotizability (mediums, N=15) out of hypnosis. Pain reports and the stimulus-locked heart rate changes induced by electrical nociceptive stimulation of the left hand were studied in the absence of concomitant stimuli (Control), during suggestions of analgesia (SUGG, glove analgesia) and during cold pressor test used as a conditioning stimulus to the right hand (DNIC, water temperature=10-12°C) in the REAL session. Participants were submitted also to a SHAM session in which the DNIC water temperature was 30°C and the suggestions for analgesia were substituted with weather forecast information.
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August 2015
*Aplysia onlus, GIFT Institute of Integrative Medicine; and †Pain Therapy Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
This retrospective study investigated the influence of psychiatric comorbidity on pain perception and coping with pain in tertiary pain clinic patients, 427 treated for chronic low back pain (CLBP) and 629 for other forms of chronic pain (CG). No differences in psychosomatic dimensions were found between the two groups, but Italian Pain Questionnaire dimensions and intensity scores (t = 7.35; p < 0.
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