Cold pressor pain and gambling disorder: implications for the opioid system.

CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with GD manifested a relative intolerance to pain on the cold pressor paradigm, even though they physiologically did not seem to experience greater pain. Given the role of the opioid system in pain processing, it would be valuable in future work to examine whether cold pressor measures can predict response to treatments in GD, including with opioid antagonists. PMID: 31169110 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31169110?dopt=Abstract

Source: CNS Spectrums - June 5, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Grant JE, Chamberlain SR Tags: CNS Spectr Source Type: research