Material below summarizes the article Doubling Your Pay-Off: Winning Pain Relief Engages Endogenous Pain Inhibition, published on August 25, 2015, in eNeuro and authored by Susanne Becker, Wiebke Gandhi, Saskia Kwan, Alysha-Karima Ahmed, and Petra Schweinhardt.
The pleasure of pain relief is known to everyone — satisfying, soothing, and much sought-after when one is in pain. For individuals suffering from chronic pain, pain relief is a major, often all-dominant, goal.
It is known that motivation to obtain reward augments the liking of the reward when obtained. Because pain relief can be conceptualized as a form of reward, we reasoned that a reduction of nociceptive input that is obtained in a motivated state should be associated with greater pain reduction than expected by the decreased nociceptive input.
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