Stephen Bruehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 205389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Bruehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruehl |
| SIGNATURE | BRUEHL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2264-4758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cluster Analysis of Features Associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Described in 216 Select Reports from 1947–2016
Witness reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) contain descriptions of observed UAP characteristics and behaviors. We sought to gain insights into possible classes of UAP by applying two-step cluster analysis, a statistical pattern recognition technique, to data extracted from the select UAP report database (n = 301) created by Powell et al. To create the clusters, we targeted shape, estimated size, ability to hover, presence of electroma…
Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral Pathways Linking Adversity and Discrimination to Daily Pain in African-American Adults
Racial, Gender, and Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Pediatric Trauma Care
Child Pain Intensity and Parental Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine Predict Post-Tonsillectomy Analgesic Use
Parental attitudes regarding pain interventions and perceptions of their child’s pain intensity likely influence the decision to administer postoperative analgesics. Our study examined the impact of daily fluctuations in child pain intensity and parental attitudes regarding complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) on analgesic administration following pediatric tonsillectomy. Parents of children undergoing tonsillectomy (n = 33) completed a s…
Social support, social undermining, and acute clinical pain in women
Women may be disproportionately vulnerable to acute pain, potentially due to their social landscape. We examined whether positive and negative social processes (social support and social undermining) are associated with acute pain and if the processes are linked to pain via negative cognitive appraisal and emotion (pain catastrophizing, hyperarousal, anger). Psychosocial variables were assessed in inner-city women ( N = 375) presenting to an Emer…
Slowly Repeated Evoked Pain as a Marker of Central Sensitization in Fibromyalgia
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the diagnostic accuracy and test-retest reliability of a novel dynamic evoked pain protocol (slowly repeated evoked pain [SREP]) compared with temporal summation of pain (TSP), a standard index of central sensitization. METHODS: Thirty-five fibromyalgia (FM) patients and 30 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients completed, in pseudorandomized order, a standard mechanical TSP protocol (10 stimuli of 1-second duration at …
Interacting Effects of Trait Anger and Acute Anger Arousal on Pain
OBJECTIVE: Elevated trait anger (TRANG; heightened propensity to experience anger) is associated with greater pain responsiveness, possibly via associations with deficient endogenous opioid analgesia. This study tested whether acute anger arousal moderates the impact of TRANG on endogenous opioid analgesia. METHODS: Ninety-four chronic low back pain (LBP) participants and 85 healthy controls received opioid blockade (8 mg of naloxone) or placebo …
Anger Management Style Moderates Effects of Attention Strategy During Acute Pain Induction on Physiological Responses to Subsequent Mental Stress and Recovery
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether high trait anger-out chronic low back (CLBP) patients would show exceptionally large symptom-specific lower paraspinal (LP) responses, compared with healthy nonpatients, during pain induction, a subsequent mental stressor, and recovery when they were urged to suppress awareness of pain and suffering. METHODS: CLBP patients (n = 93) and nonpatients (n = 105) were assigned randomly to one of four attention strategy co…
Trait Anger Management Style Moderates Effects of Actual (“State”) Anger Regulation on Symptom-Specific Reactivity and Recovery Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients
OBJECTIVES: We examined whether "state" anger regulation-inhibition or expression-among chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients would affect lower paraspinal (LP) muscle tension following anger-induction, and whether these effects were moderated by trait anger management style. METHOD: Eighty-four CLBP patients underwent harassment, then they regulated anger under one of two conditions: half expressed anger by telling stories about people depicted …
Anger Management Style and Hostility Among Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVES: We examined whether anger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity during anger induction (but not sadness induction) among patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). For patients with CLBP, relevant muscles are the lower paraspinals (LPs). Anger-in x hostility and anger-out x hostility interactions were tested to determine whether particularly reactive groups of patients could be identified w…
Endogenous Opioids Inhibit Ambulatory Blood Pressure During Naturally Occurring Stress
OBJECTIVE: Laboratory experiments suggest that endogenous opioids inhibit blood pressure responses during psychological stress. Moreover, there seem to be considerable individual differences in the efficacy of opioid blood pressure inhibition, and these differences may be involved in the expression of risk for cardiovascular disease. To further evaluate the possible role of opioid mechanisms in cardiovascular control, the present study sought to …
Gender effects on blood pressures obtained during an on-campus screening
In a blood pressure screening of 167 male and female college students, we varied the gender of the screener to evaluate gender effects on blood pressure. Four repeated determinations of resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure were obtained with an automated oscillometric device in a quiet semi-darkened room. Analysis of systolic blood pressure indicated a significant interaction between screener gender, subject gender, and repeated determin…
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Gender effects on blood pressures obtained during an on-campus screening
In a blood pressure screening of 167 male and female college students, we varied the gender of the screener to evaluate gender effects on blood pressure. Four repeated determinations of resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure were obtained with an automated oscillometric device in a quiet semi-darkened room. Analysis of systolic blood pressure indicated a significant interaction between screener gender, subject gender, and repeated determin…
Endogenous Opioids Inhibit Ambulatory Blood Pressure During Naturally Occurring Stress
OBJECTIVE: Laboratory experiments suggest that endogenous opioids inhibit blood pressure responses during psychological stress. Moreover, there seem to be considerable individual differences in the efficacy of opioid blood pressure inhibition, and these differences may be involved in the expression of risk for cardiovascular disease. To further evaluate the possible role of opioid mechanisms in cardiovascular control, the present study sought to …
Anger Management Style and Hostility Among Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVES: We examined whether anger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity during anger induction (but not sadness induction) among patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). For patients with CLBP, relevant muscles are the lower paraspinals (LPs). Anger-in x hostility and anger-out x hostility interactions were tested to determine whether particularly reactive groups of patients could be identified w…
Trait Anger Management Style Moderates Effects of Actual (“State”) Anger Regulation on Symptom-Specific Reactivity and Recovery Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients
OBJECTIVES: We examined whether "state" anger regulation-inhibition or expression-among chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients would affect lower paraspinal (LP) muscle tension following anger-induction, and whether these effects were moderated by trait anger management style. METHOD: Eighty-four CLBP patients underwent harassment, then they regulated anger under one of two conditions: half expressed anger by telling stories about people depicted …
Anger Management Style Moderates Effects of Attention Strategy During Acute Pain Induction on Physiological Responses to Subsequent Mental Stress and Recovery
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether high trait anger-out chronic low back (CLBP) patients would show exceptionally large symptom-specific lower paraspinal (LP) responses, compared with healthy nonpatients, during pain induction, a subsequent mental stressor, and recovery when they were urged to suppress awareness of pain and suffering. METHODS: CLBP patients (n = 93) and nonpatients (n = 105) were assigned randomly to one of four attention strategy co…
Interacting Effects of Trait Anger and Acute Anger Arousal on Pain
OBJECTIVE: Elevated trait anger (TRANG; heightened propensity to experience anger) is associated with greater pain responsiveness, possibly via associations with deficient endogenous opioid analgesia. This study tested whether acute anger arousal moderates the impact of TRANG on endogenous opioid analgesia. METHODS: Ninety-four chronic low back pain (LBP) participants and 85 healthy controls received opioid blockade (8 mg of naloxone) or placebo …
Slowly Repeated Evoked Pain as a Marker of Central Sensitization in Fibromyalgia
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the diagnostic accuracy and test-retest reliability of a novel dynamic evoked pain protocol (slowly repeated evoked pain [SREP]) compared with temporal summation of pain (TSP), a standard index of central sensitization. METHODS: Thirty-five fibromyalgia (FM) patients and 30 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients completed, in pseudorandomized order, a standard mechanical TSP protocol (10 stimuli of 1-second duration at …
Child Pain Intensity and Parental Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine Predict Post-Tonsillectomy Analgesic Use
Parental attitudes regarding pain interventions and perceptions of their child’s pain intensity likely influence the decision to administer postoperative analgesics. Our study examined the impact of daily fluctuations in child pain intensity and parental attitudes regarding complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) on analgesic administration following pediatric tonsillectomy. Parents of children undergoing tonsillectomy (n = 33) completed a s…
Social support, social undermining, and acute clinical pain in women
Women may be disproportionately vulnerable to acute pain, potentially due to their social landscape. We examined whether positive and negative social processes (social support and social undermining) are associated with acute pain and if the processes are linked to pain via negative cognitive appraisal and emotion (pain catastrophizing, hyperarousal, anger). Psychosocial variables were assessed in inner-city women ( N = 375) presenting to an Emer…
Racial, Gender, and Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Pediatric Trauma Care
Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral Pathways Linking Adversity and Discrimination to Daily Pain in African-American Adults
Cluster Analysis of Features Associated with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Described in 216 Select Reports from 1947–2016
Witness reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) contain descriptions of observed UAP characteristics and behaviors. We sought to gain insights into possible classes of UAP by applying two-step cluster analysis, a statistical pattern recognition technique, to data extracted from the select UAP report database (n = 301) created by Powell et al. To create the clusters, we targeted shape, estimated size, ability to hover, presence of electroma…
Medicine (9 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Anger (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (5 works) · Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (5 works) · Chronic pain (4 works)