Paper Info
Title
Patient-Clinician Brain Response During Clinical Encounter And Pain Treatment
Abstract
The patient-clinician relationship is known to significantly affect the pain experience, as empathy, mutual trust and therapeutic alliance can significantly modulate pain perception and influence clinical therapy outcomes. The aim of the present study was to use an EEG hyperscanning setup to identify brain and behavioral mechanisms supporting the patient-clinician relationship while this clinical dyad is engaged in a therapeutic interaction. Our previous study applied fMRI hyperscanning to investigate whether brain concordance is linked with analgesia experienced by a patient while undergoing treatment by the clinician. In this current hyperscanning project we investigated similar outcomes for the patient-clinician dyad exploiting the high temporal resolution of EEG and the possibility to acquire the signals while patients and clinicians were present in the same room and engaged in a face-to-face interaction under an experimentally-controlled therapeutic context. Advanced source localization methods allowed for integration of spatial and spectral information in order to assess brain correlates of therapeutic alliance and pain perception in different clinical interaction contexts. Preliminary results showed that both behavioral and brain responses across the patient-clinician dyad were significantly affected by the interaction style.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175608
42ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY: ENABLING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EMBC'20
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Chronic pain, Therapeutic Alliance, EEG Hyperscanning, Brain Source Localization
Conference
2020
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A Anzolin122.20
K Isenburg200.34
A Grahl300.34
Jlenia Toppi413622.74
M Yucel500.34
D M Ellingsen600.34
J Gerber700.34
A Ciaramidaro852.55
Laura Astolfi942.44
Ted J Kaptchuk10172.84
Vitaly Napadow118411.65