Effects of intensity, attention and medication on auditory-evoked potentials in patients with fibromyalgia.

Autor: Samartin-Veiga N; Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía, Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. noelia.samartin.veiga@usc.es., González-Villar AJ; Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía, Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.; Psychological Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Research Centre, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal., Triñanes Y; Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía, Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain., Gómez-Perretta C; Research Foundation of La Fe Hospital, Valencia, Spain., Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía, Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2020 Dec 14; Vol. 10 (1), pp. 21904. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Dec 14.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78377-0
Abstrakt: Fibromyalgia (FM) has been associated to an increased processing of somatosensory stimuli, but its generalization to other sensory modalities is under discussion. To clarify this, we studied auditory event-related potentials (AEPs) to stimuli of different intensity in patients with FM and healthy controls (HCs), considering the effects of attention mechanisms and medication. We performed two experiments: In study 1 (n = 50 FM, 60 HCs), the stimuli were presented randomly within the sequence; in study 2 (n = 28 FM, 30 HCs), they were presented in blocks of the same intensity. We analyzed intensity and group effects on N1-P2 amplitude and, only for the FM group, the effect of medication and the correlation between AEPs and clinical variables. Contrary to the expectation, the patients showed a trend of reduced AEPs to the loudest tones (study 1) or no significant differences with the HCs (study 2). Medication with central effects significantly reduced AEPs, while no significant relationships between the N1-P2 amplitude/intensity function and patients' symptoms were observed. The findings do not provide evidence of augmented auditory processing in FM. Nevertheless, given the observed effect of medication, the role of sensory amplification as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism in fibromyalgia cannot be discarded.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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