Pierre Rainville
Biographic Data
| ID | 1663007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Rainville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Rainville |
| SIGNATURE | RAINVILLE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9801-757X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dispositional factors affecting the analgesic response to imagery and mindfulness suggestions during hypnosis
Medical hypnosis combined with mindfulness suggestions may improve pain management, but individual benefits are difficult to predict. This study compared the effects of hypnotic induction suggestions and different hypnotic suggestions for analgesia on acute experimental pain, considering hypnotic susceptibility (SHSS:A) and five mindfulness facets (FFMQ). Thirty-four healthy participants were administered phasic electrical stimulations during a B…
Mindfulness induction and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Reduced Fear-Conditioned Pain Modulation in Experienced Meditators: A Preliminary Study
OBJECTIVE: Mindfulness-based practice is a form of cognitive/affective training that may help reduce suffering by attenuating maladaptive anticipatory processes. This study's objective was to examine the pain modulating impact of classical fear learning in meditation practitioners. METHODS: The hyperalgesic effects of pain expectation and uncertainty were assessed outside formal meditation in 11 experienced meditators (>1000 hours) compared with …
Operant Conditioning of Facial Displays of Pain
OBJECTIVE: The operant model of chronic pain posits that nonverbal pain behavior, such as facial expressions, is sensitive to reinforcement, but experimental evidence supporting this assumption is sparse. The aim of the present study was to investigate in a healthy population a) whether facial pain behavior can indeed be operantly conditioned using a discriminative reinforcement schedule to increase and decrease facial pain behavior and b) to wha…
A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication
We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of the process of pain communication. The focus is on an improved understanding of immediate dyadic transactions during painful events in the context of broader social phenomena. Fine-grain consideration of social transactions during pain leads to an appreciation of sociobehavioral eve…
Cortical thickness and pain sensitivity in zen meditators
Zen meditation has been associated with low sensitivity on both the affective and the sensory dimensions of pain. Given reports of gray matter differences in meditators as well as between chronic pain patients and controls, the present study investigated whether differences in brain morphometry are associated with the low pain sensitivity observed in Zen practitioners. Structural MRI scans were performed and the temperature required to produce mo…
Pain Sensitivity and Analgesic Effects of Mindful States in Zen Meditators: A Cross-Sectional Study
OBJECTIVE: To investigate pain perception and the potential analgesic effects of mindful states in experienced Zen meditators. METHODS: Highly trained Zen meditators (n = 13; >1000 hours of practice) and age/gender-matched control volunteers (n = 13) received individually adjusted thermal stimuli to elicit moderate pain on the calf. Conditions included: a) baseline-1: no task; b) concentration: attend exclusively to the calf; c) mindfulness: atte…
Neurophénoménologie des états et des contenus de conscience dans l’hypnose et l’analgésie hypnotique
Neurophénoménologie des états et des contenus de conscience dans l’hypnose et l’analgésie hypnotique. Un article de la revue Théologiques (Le Soi dans tous ses états) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Integrating experiential–phenomenological methods and neuroscience to study neural mechanisms of pain and consciousness
Pain Affect Encoded in Human Anterior Cingulate But Not Somatosensory Cortex
Recent evidence demonstrating multiple regions of human cerebral cortex activated by pain has prompted speculation about their individual contributions to this complex experience. To differentiate cortical areas involved in pain affect, hypnotic suggestions were used to alter selectively the unpleasantness of noxious stimuli, without changing the perceived intensity. Positron emission tomography revealed significant changes in pain-evoked activit…
A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication
We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of the process of pain communication. The focus is on an improved understanding of immediate dyadic transactions during painful events in the context of broader social phenomena. Fine-grain consideration of social transactions during pain leads to an appreciation of sociobehavioral eve…
Pain Affect Encoded in Human Anterior Cingulate But Not Somatosensory Cortex
Recent evidence demonstrating multiple regions of human cerebral cortex activated by pain has prompted speculation about their individual contributions to this complex experience. To differentiate cortical areas involved in pain affect, hypnotic suggestions were used to alter selectively the unpleasantness of noxious stimuli, without changing the perceived intensity. Positron emission tomography revealed significant changes in pain-evoked activit…
Integrating experiential–phenomenological methods and neuroscience to study neural mechanisms of pain and consciousness
Neurophénoménologie des états et des contenus de conscience dans l’hypnose et l’analgésie hypnotique
Neurophénoménologie des états et des contenus de conscience dans l’hypnose et l’analgésie hypnotique. Un article de la revue Théologiques (Le Soi dans tous ses états) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Pain Sensitivity and Analgesic Effects of Mindful States in Zen Meditators: A Cross-Sectional Study
OBJECTIVE: To investigate pain perception and the potential analgesic effects of mindful states in experienced Zen meditators. METHODS: Highly trained Zen meditators (n = 13; >1000 hours of practice) and age/gender-matched control volunteers (n = 13) received individually adjusted thermal stimuli to elicit moderate pain on the calf. Conditions included: a) baseline-1: no task; b) concentration: attend exclusively to the calf; c) mindfulness: atte…
Cortical thickness and pain sensitivity in zen meditators
Zen meditation has been associated with low sensitivity on both the affective and the sensory dimensions of pain. Given reports of gray matter differences in meditators as well as between chronic pain patients and controls, the present study investigated whether differences in brain morphometry are associated with the low pain sensitivity observed in Zen practitioners. Structural MRI scans were performed and the temperature required to produce mo…
Operant Conditioning of Facial Displays of Pain
OBJECTIVE: The operant model of chronic pain posits that nonverbal pain behavior, such as facial expressions, is sensitive to reinforcement, but experimental evidence supporting this assumption is sparse. The aim of the present study was to investigate in a healthy population a) whether facial pain behavior can indeed be operantly conditioned using a discriminative reinforcement schedule to increase and decrease facial pain behavior and b) to wha…
A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication
We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of the process of pain communication. The focus is on an improved understanding of immediate dyadic transactions during painful events in the context of broader social phenomena. Fine-grain consideration of social transactions during pain leads to an appreciation of sociobehavioral eve…
Reduced Fear-Conditioned Pain Modulation in Experienced Meditators: A Preliminary Study
OBJECTIVE: Mindfulness-based practice is a form of cognitive/affective training that may help reduce suffering by attenuating maladaptive anticipatory processes. This study's objective was to examine the pain modulating impact of classical fear learning in meditation practitioners. METHODS: The hyperalgesic effects of pain expectation and uncertainty were assessed outside formal meditation in 11 experienced meditators (>1000 hours) compared with …
Mindfulness induction and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Dispositional factors affecting the analgesic response to imagery and mindfulness suggestions during hypnosis
Medical hypnosis combined with mindfulness suggestions may improve pain management, but individual benefits are difficult to predict. This study compared the effects of hypnotic induction suggestions and different hypnotic suggestions for analgesia on acute experimental pain, considering hypnotic susceptibility (SHSS:A) and five mindfulness facets (FFMQ). Thirty-four healthy participants were administered phasic electrical stimulations during a B…
Pain Management and Placebo Effect (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Mindfulness (3 works) · Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (3 works)