pain research
What is a “painful” experience?
In my two research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health I examined how psychological processes such as expectations and attention impact how we feel and categorize pain. Using mixed methods research including surveys, questionnaires, visual analog scales (VAS), eye tracking, neuroimaging, and physiological measures, we found that pain perception changes as a function of previously learned information.
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Selected Publications and Presentations
Atlas, L. Y., Dildine, T. C., Palacios-Barrios, E. E., Banker, L., Yu, Q., Reynolds, R., Banker, L. A., Grant, S. S., & Pine, D., S. (2022). Instructions and experiential learning have similar impacts on pain and pain-related brain responses but produce dissociations in value-based reversal learning. Elife, 11, e73353. (link)
Mischkowski, D., Stavish, C., Palacios-Barrios, E. E., Banker, L., Dildine, T. C., & Atlas, L. Y. (2021). Dispositional mindfulness and acute heat pain: Comparing stimulus-evoked pain with summary pain assessment. Psychomatic Medicine. (link).
Mischkowski, D., Palacios-Barrios, E. E., Banker, L., Dildine, T. C., & Atlas, L. Y. (2019). Pain or nociception? Subjective experience mediates the effects of acute noxious heat on autonomic responses - corrected and republished. Pain, 160(6), 1469–1481. (link)
Dildine, T. C., Mischkowski, D., Banker, L. A., Palacios-Barrios, E. E., Olsson, A., & Atlas, L. Y. (2018). How race and sex influence physiological and subjective responses to aversive stimulation. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience (SANS) meeting, Brooklyn, NY, May 2018.
Necka, E. A., Palacios-Barros, E. E., Dildine, T. C., Banker, L. A., & Atlas, L. Y. (2018). Parasympathetic cardiac control is associated with pain reversal learning. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience (SANS) meeting, Brooklyn, NY, May 2018.
Mischkowski, D., Dildine, T. C., Palacios-Barrios, E., Banker, L., & Atlas, L. Y. (2017). Trait mindfulness is related to retrospective but not current pain. Poster presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience (SANS) meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2017.
Banker, L., Dildine, T., Palacios-Barrios, E., Mischkowski, D., & Atlas, L. Y. (2016). Autonomic responses to thermal noxious stimulation. Poster presented at the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) Training Day, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, April 2016.