2022
DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2022.914473
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Increased pain unpleasantness and pain-related fMRI activation in the periaqueductal gray in Alzheimer's disease

Abstract: BackgroundPain continues to be underrecognized and undertreated in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The periaqueductal gray (PAG) is essential to pain processing and modulation yet is damaged by AD. While evidence exists of altered neural processing of pain in AD, there has not been a focused investigation of the PAG during pain in people with AD.PurposeTo investigate the role of the PAG in sensory and affective pain processing for people living with AD.MethodsParticipants from a larger study completed pa… Show more

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“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies suggest that medial and lateral pain pathways among patients with mild and moderate dementia are intact, indicating that patients with dementia experience pain, but may be less able to express it (Cole et al, 2006). More recent studies suggest that patients with Alzheimer's disease may have damage to the periaqueductal gray (involved in pain inhibition; Anderson et al, 2022) and posterior and ventral default mode network subcomponents (Beach et al, 2017), which may intensify the experience of pain. This makes nonverbal assessments more important in patients with impaired expressive abilities due to underlying and undiagnosed cognitive dysfunction.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies suggest that medial and lateral pain pathways among patients with mild and moderate dementia are intact, indicating that patients with dementia experience pain, but may be less able to express it (Cole et al, 2006). More recent studies suggest that patients with Alzheimer's disease may have damage to the periaqueductal gray (involved in pain inhibition; Anderson et al, 2022) and posterior and ventral default mode network subcomponents (Beach et al, 2017), which may intensify the experience of pain. This makes nonverbal assessments more important in patients with impaired expressive abilities due to underlying and undiagnosed cognitive dysfunction.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%