Appetitive and aversive pain-related learning in health and chronic back pain (A11)

• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 316803389

Project A11 will investigate commonalities and differences in behavioral and neural mechanisms of acquisition, extinction and reinstatement for cues predicting pain relief (appetitive learning) and cues predicting pain increase (aversive learning) in chronic back pain patients and healthy controls. Further we will test, whether prior knowledge about US-CS contingencies alters extinction dynamics and the reinstatement-induced return of conditioned responses differentially for appetitive and aversive US-CS associations.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1280: Extinction Learning
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Ulrike Bingel; Dr. Katarina Forkmann, until 6/2022; Dr. Katharina Schmidt, since 9/2022