Effects of baroreceptor stimulation and opioids on the auditory startle reflex

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-222

  Nyklíček, Ivan ^a   Wijnen, Viona ^a   Rau, Harald ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Gilead Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective modulation; Baroreceptor stimulation; Endogenous opioids; Hypertension; Startle response

Indexed keywords

NALTREXONE; OPIATE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS PRESSORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; BAROREFLEX; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NARCOTICS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSORECEPTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 17244377347     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00273.x     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. al'Absi, M., Petersen, K. L., & Wittmers, L. E. (2002). Adrenocortical and hemodynamic predictors of pain perception in men and women. Pain, 96, 197-204.
2. Birnbaum, S. G., & Davis, M. (1998). Modulation of the acoustic startle reflex by infusion of corticotrophin-releasing hormone into the nucleus reticular pontis caudalis. Brain Research, 782, 318-323.
3. Blumenthal, T. D. (1994). Signal attenuation as a function of integrator time constant and signal duration. Psychophysiology, 31, 201-203.
4. Bousquet, P., Feldman, J., Bloch, R., & Schwartz, J. (1982). Evidence for a neuromodulatory role of GABA at the first synapse of the baroreceptor reflex pathway. Effects of GABA derivatives injected into the NTS. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology, 319, 168-171.
5. Bradley, M. M., Lang, P. J., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1993). Emotion, novelty, and the startle reflex: Habituation in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience, 107, 970-980.
6. Bragdon, E. E., Light, K. C., Costello, N. L., Sigurdsson, A., Bunting, S., Bhalang, K., & Maixner, W. (2002). Group differences in pain modulation: Pain-free women compared to pain-free men and to women with TMD. Pain, 96, 227-237.
7. Bruehl, S., Carlson, C. R., & McCubbin, J. A. (1992). The relationship between pain sensitivity and blood pressure in normotensives. Pain, 48, 463-467.
8. Bruehl, S., Chung, O. Y., Ward, P., Johnson, B., & McCubbin, J. A. (2002). The relationship between resting blood pressure and acute pain sensitivity in healthy normotensives and chronic back pain sufferers: The effects of opioid blockade. Pain, 100, 191-201.
9. Davis, M., Gendelman, D. S., Tischler, M. D., & Gendelman, P. M. (1982). A primary acoustic startle circuit: Lesion and stimulation studies. Journal of Neuroscience, 2, 791-805.
10. de Lima, T. C., & Davis, M. (1995). Involvement of cyclic AMP at the level of the nucleus reticular pontis caudalis in the acoustic startle response. Brain Research, 700, 59-69.
11. Droste, C., Kardos, A., Brody, S., Greenlee, M. W., Roskamm, H., & Rau, H. (1994). Baroreceptor stimulation: Pain perception and sensory thresholds. Biological Psychology, 37, 101-113.
12. Dworkin, B. R. (1988). Hypertension as a learned response: The baroreceptor reinforcement hypothesis. In T. Elhert, W. Langosch, A. Steptoe, & D. Vaitl (Eds.), Behavioural medicine in cardiovascular disorders (pp. 17-48). Chichester: John Wiley.
13. Dworkin, B. R., Elbert, T., Rau, H., Birbaumer, N., Pauli, P., & Droste, C., et al. (1994). Central effects of baroreceptor activation in humans: Attenuation of skeletal reflexes and pain perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 91, 6329-6333.
14. Dworkin, B. R., Filewich, R., Miller, N., Craigmyle, N., & Pickering, T. (1979). Baroreceptor activation reduces reactivity to noxious stimulation: Implications for hypertension. Science, 205, 1299-1301.
15. Edwards, L., McIntyre, D., Carroll, D., Ring, C., France, C. R., & Martin, U. (2003). Effects of artificial and natural baroreceptor stimulation on nociceptive responding and pain. Psychophysiology, 40, 762-769.
16. Edwards, L., Ring, C., McIntyre, D., & Carroll, D. (2001). Modulation of the human nociceptive flexion reflex across the cardiac cycle. Psychophysiology, 38, 712-718.
17. Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B., Lutzenberger, W., Kessler, M., & Pietrowsky, R. (1988). Baroreceptor stimulation alters pain sensation depending on tonic blood pressure. Psychophysiology, 25, 25-29.
18. Fendt, M., & Mucha, R. F. (2001). Anxiogenic-like effects of opiate withdrawal seen in fear-potentiated startle test, an interdisciplinary probe fordrue-related motivational states. Psychopharmacology, 155, 242-250.
19. Filion, D. L., Dawson, M. E., & Schell, A. M. (1994). Probing the orienting response with startle modification and secondary reaction time. Psychophysiology, 31, 68-78.
20. Filion, D. L., Dawson, M. E., & Schell, A. M. (1998). The psychological significance of human startle eyeblink modification: A review. Biological Psychology, 47, 1-43.
21. Fillingim, R. B., & Maixner, W. (1996). The influence of resting blood pressure and gender on pain responses. Psychosomatic Medicine, 58, 326-332.
22. Fillingim, R. B., Maixner, W., Girdler, S. S., Light, K. C., Harris, M. B., & Sheps, D. S., et al. (1997). Ischemic but not thermal pain sensitivity varies across the menstrual cycle. Psychosomatic Medicine, 59, 512-520.
23. France, C. R. (1999). Decreased pain perception and risk for hypertension: Considering a common physiological mechanism. Psychophysiology, 36, 683-692.
24. France, C. R., Ditto, B., & Adler, P. S. (1991). Pain sensitivity in offspring of hypertensives at rest and during baroreflex stimulation. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 14, 513-525.
25. France, C. R., & Page, G. D. (1998). Assessing parental history of hypertension: Father (and mother) knows best! Psychophysiology, 35, 341-343.
26. Furedy, J. J., Rau, H., & Roberts, L. E. (1992). Physiological and psychological differentiation of bidirectional baroreceptor carotid manipulation in humans. Physiology and Behavior, 51, 953-958.
27. Ghione, S. (1996). Hypertension-associated hypalgesia: Evidence in experimental animals and humans, pathophysiological mechanisms, and potential clinical consequences. Hypertension, 28, 494-504.
28. Globisch, J., Hamm, A. O., Esteves, F., & Gilman, A. (1999). Fear appears fast: Temporal course of startle reflex potenliation in animal fearful subjects. Psychophysiology, 36, 66-75.
29. Häusler, G., & Osterwalder, R. (1980). Evidence suggesting a transmitter or neuromodulatory role for substance P at the first synapse of the baroreceptor reflex. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology, 314, 111-121.
30. Koch, M. (1999). The neurobiology of startle. Progress in Neurobiology, 59, 107-128.
31. Kungel, M., Ebert, U., Herbert, H., & Ostwald, J. (1994). Substance P and other putative transmitters modulate the activity of reticular pontine neurons: An electrophysiological and immunohistochemical study. Brain Research, 643, 29-39.
32. Lang, P. J., Bradley, M. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1990). Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex. Psychological Review, 97, 377-395.
33. Lang, P. J., Bradley, N. M., & Cuthbert, B. N. (1999). International Affective Picture System (IAPS): Instruction manual and affective ratings. Technical Report A-4. Center for Research in Psychophysiology. University of Florida.
34. Larson, C. L., Ruffalo, D., Nietert, J. Y., & Davidson, R. J. (2000). Temporal stability of the emotion-modulated startle response. Psychophysiology, 37, 92-101.
35. Lewis, D. I., & Coote, J. H. (1996). Baroreceptor-induced inhibition of sympathetic neurons by GABA acting at a spinal site. American Journal of Physiology, 270, H1885 1892.
36. Maixner, W., & Randich, A. (1984). Role of the right vagal nerve trunk in antinociception. Brain Research, 298, 374-377.
37. McCubbin, J. A. (1993). Stress and endogenous opioids: Behavioral and circulatory interactions. Biological Psychology, 35, 91-122.
38. McCubbin, J. A., & Bruehl, S. (1994). Do endogenous opioids mediate the relationship between blood pressure and pain sensitivity in normotensives? Pain, 57, 63-67.
39. McCubbin, J. A., Cheung, R., Montgomery, T. B., Bulbulian, R., & Wilson, J. F. (1992). Aerobic fitness and opioidergic inhibition of cardiovascular stress reactivity. Psychophysiology, 29, 687-697.
40. McIntyre, D., Ring, C., & Carroll, D. (2004). Effects of arousal and natural baroreccptor activation on the human muscle stretch reflex. Psychophysiology, 41, 954-960.
41. Meloni, E. G., & Davis, M. (1999). Muscimol in the deep layers of the superior colliculus/mesensephalic reticular formation blocks expression but not acquisition of fear-potentiated startle in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113, 1152-1160.
42. Nyklíček, I., Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., & Van Heck, G. L. (1999). Hypertension and pain sensitivity: Effects of gender and cardiovascular reactivity. Biological Psychology, 50, 127-142.
43. Nyklíček, I., Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., & Van Heck, G. L. (2001). Hypertension and appraisal of physical and psychological stressors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 50, 237-244.
44. Page, G. D., & France, C. R. (1997). Objective evidence of decreased pain perception in normotensives at risk for hypertension. Pain, 73, 173-180.
45. Randich, A., & Maixner, W. (1984). Interactions between cardiovascular and pain regulatory systems. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, 8, 343-369.
46. Rau, H., Brody, S., Larbig, W., Pauli, P., Vöhringer, M., & Harsch, B., et al. (1994). Effects of PRES baroreccptor stimulation on thermal and mechanical pain threshold in borderline hypertensives and normotensives. Psychophysiology, 31, 480-485.
47. Rau, H., & Elbert, T. (2001). Psychophysiology of arterial baroreceptors and the etiology of hypertension. Biological Psychology, 57, 179-201.
48. Rau, H., Elbert, T., Geiger, B., & Lutzenberger, W. (1992). PRES: The controlled noninvasive stimulation of the carotid baroreceptors in humans. Psychophysiology, 29, 165-172.
49. Redgate, E. S. (1968). Role of baroreccptor reflexes and vasoactive polypeptides in the corticotrophin release evoked by hypotension. Endocrinology, 82, 704-720.
50. Saavedra, J. M. (1981). Naloxone reversible decrease in pain sensitivity in young and adult spontaneously hypertensive rats. Brain Research, 209, 245-249.
51. Schmid, G., Palkovits, M., Muller, I., & Heidland, A. (1982). Acute changes in cyclic AMP levels of certain brain areas following intraventricular injections of renin in rats. Neuropharmacology, 21, 3-6.
52. Schobel, H. P., Handwerker, H. O., Schmieder, R. E., Heusser, K., Dominiak, P., & Luft, F. C. (1998). Effects of naloxone on hemodynamic and sympathetic nerve responses to pain in normotensive vs. borderline hypertensive men. Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, 69, 49-55.
53. Sheps, D. S., Bragdon, E. E., Gray, T. F., III, Ballenger, M., Usedom, J. E., & Maixner, W. (1992). Relation between systemic hypertension and pain perception. American Journal of Cardiology, 70, 3f-5f.
54. Sher, L. (1998). The role of the endogenous opioid system in the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders. Medical Hypotheses, 50, 473-474.
55. Sitsen, J. M. A., & De Jong, W. (1983). Hypoalgesia in genetically hypertensive rats (SHR) is absent in rats with experimental hypertension. Hypertension, 5, 185-190.
56. Sitsen, J. M. A., & De Jong, W. (1984). Observations on pain perception and hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, A6, 1345-1356.
57. Vaitl, D., & Gruppe, H. (1990). Changes in hemodynamics modulate electrical brain activity. Journal of Psychophysiology, 4, 41-49.
58. Van Boxtel, A., Boelhouwer, A. J. W., & Bos, A. R. (1998). Optimal EMG signal bandwidth and interelectrode distance for the recording of acoustic, electrocutaneous, and photic blink reflexes. Psychophysiology, 35, 690-697.
59. VanOyen Witvliet, C., & Vrana, S. R. (1995). Psychophysiological responses as indices of affective dimensions. Psychophysiology, 32, 436-443.
60. Vrana, S. R., Spence, E. L., & Lang, P. J. (1988). The startle probe response: A new measure of emotion? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 97, 487-491.
61. Weinstock, M., Schorer-Apelbaum, D., & Rosin, A. J. (1984). Endogenous opiates mediate cardiac sympathetic inhibition in response to a pressor stimulus in rabbits. Journal of Hypertension, 2, 639-646.
62. Zamir, N., & Segal, M. (1979). Hypertension-induced analgesia: Changes in pain sensitivity in experimental hypertensive rats. Brain Research, 160, 170-173.
63. Zamir, N., & Shuber, E. (1980). Altered pain perception in hypertensive humans. Brain Research, 201, 471-474.