Scientists test if pain makes you worse at video games

NCT ID NCT03115788

Summary

This study aimed to understand how feeling pain might temporarily affect a person's ability to focus and think clearly. Researchers had 12 healthy volunteers play a simple attention game on an iPad, sometimes while experiencing brief, safe pain from a warm probe or cold water. The goal was to measure if and how pain changes game performance to learn more about how surgery or illness might affect thinking.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157, United States

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