U.S., Nov. 19 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07234123) titled 'Cognitive Conditioned Pain Modulation' on Nov. 14.
Brief Summary: This study looks at how the brain reduces pain when a person feels two painful sensations at the same time. Normally, the brain can "turn down" pain using natural pain-control systems, but these systems usually take some time to activate. In this study, we are testing whether very short (approximately 6 second), simultaneous pain signals can still reduce how much pain people feel, and whether this fast form of pain reduction happens because pain pulls a person's attention away from one area and toward another.
We also measure how much people's attention is pulled by ...