Healthy
Conditions
Keywords
healthy volunteers
Brief 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.
Interventions
DEVICEthermal stimulation delivered by a thermode.
Empathetic context (neutral, empathetic, non-empathetic) when thermal stimulation
OTHERfunctional MRI
MRI realised with thermal stimulations and empathetic context (neutral, empathetic, non-empathetic) when thermal stimulation
Sponsors
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Right handed
Exclusion criteria
* Pregnant or lactating women, * Against-indications to MRI * Drug intake of less than 12 hours, * Neurological history or deficits, psychiatric, auditory or visual. * Decline to participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intensity of the perceived pain assessed by the volunteer by a analog scale (VAS) at each thermal stimulation. | Day 0 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| blood-oxygen-level dependent (MRI) | Day 0 |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed