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Modulation of Painful Perception

NCT02528578 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 74

Last updated 2017-09-26

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Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate in healthy volunteers, the influence of empathy on pain perception.

It is widely accepted in the clinical management that the feeling of listening to the patients' pain would have a favorable influence on the pain, and conversely, the lack of listening would be aggravating.

In this study, the volunteer will receive painful thermal stimuli in empathetic context (l, empathetic or non-empathetic) Two situations will oppose, one where the examiner neglect or minimize the suffering of the voluntary and the other or the contrary, the subject will receive empathy.

The first part of the project is to verify that the pain is influenced by the empathetic context. The second part will be conducted functional MRI, which should isolate the brain regions affected by other people's empathy for pain.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

DEVICE

thermal stimulation delivered by a thermode.

Empathetic context (neutral, empathetic, non-empathetic) when thermal stimulation

OTHER

functional MRI

MRI realised with thermal stimulations and empathetic context (neutral, empathetic, non-empathetic) when thermal stimulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roland PEYRON, MD · CHU de SAINT-ETIENNE

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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