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Itch Beyond the Skin—Mucosal Itch [PDF]
Frontiers in Allergy, 2021 Itch is a nociceptive sensation linked with reflexes and cognitive motor actions. We traditionally think of itch as a sensation of the skin related to allergy, an insect sting or interestingly, anxiety and frustration.
Lesslar, Olivia J Ly, Smith, Peter K
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Itch and neuropathic itch [PDF]
Pain, 2018 Neuropathic itch is a pathological condition that is due to damage within the nervous system. This type of itch can be severe and unrelenting, which has a very negative impact on quality of life. Neuropathic itch is more common than generally appreciated
Sarah E. Ross +5 more
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Attentional Bias Towards Visual Itch and Pain Stimuli in Itch- and Pain-free Individuals?
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2020 Itch and pain are important attention-demanding sensations that allow adaptive responses to potential bodily harm. An attentional bias towards itch and pain stimuli, i.e.
Jennifer M. Becker +6 more
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Cells, 2020 Neurologic insults as varied as inflammation, stroke, and fibromyalgia elicit neuropathic pain and itch. Noxious sensation results when aberrantly increased afferent signaling reaches percept-forming cortical neurons and can occur due to increased ...
James Meixiong +2 more
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Investigation of itch in Parkinson disease [PDF]
, 2021 Introduction: Sensory abnormalities (eg, pain) are common in Parkinson disease (PD) with a negative impact on quality of life. As itch is less studied in PD, and pain and itch partially share sensory pathways, we designed this study to identify the ...
Radovanovic, Tessa +20 more
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Itch itch with not a wink of sleep [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2014 Key Clinical MessageA 55‐year‐old man of dark complexion presented with multiple extensive swellings over the chest, right upper arm, and left shoulder for 10 years. Swellings were hyperpigmented, firm, and intensely pruritic especially over the chest region.
Baruah, Rishiraj +1 more
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The prelimbic cortex regulates itch processing by controlling attentional bias
iScience, 2023 Summary: Itch is a complex and unpleasant sensory experience. Recent studies have begun to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of sensory and emotional components of itch in the brain.
Guang-Yan Wu +11 more
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Attentional interference, but no attentional bias, by tonic itch and pain stimulation
, 2022 Introduction: Attentional processes are involved in the experience of itch and pain. They interrupt task performance (ie, attentional interference) or bias allocation of attention toward the somatosensory stimulation, that is, attentional bias (AB ...
Becker, Jennifer M. +12 more
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Attentional Bias Modification Training for Itch: A Proof-of-Principle Study in Healthy Individuals
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Itch draws our attention to allow imposing action against bodily harm (e.g., remove insects). At the same time, itch is found to interfere with ongoing tasks and daily life goals.
Antoinette I. M. van Laarhoven +10 more
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Central Mechanisms of Itch [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter summarizes recent findings regarding the central transmission of acute and chronic itch. Itch is transduced by cutaneous pruriceptors that transmit signals to neurons in the superficial spinal cord.
Akiyama, Tasuku +3 more
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