Individuals who self-harm perceive pain differently and have altered pain tolerance
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SUPPORTED
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Current empirical evidence consistently indicates that individuals who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury exhibit altered pain thresholds, altered sensory attenuation, and distinct neurobiological pain-processing differences compared to healthy controls.
Evidence for · 3
Nonsuicidal self-injury prediction with pain-processing neural circuits using interpretable graph neural network.
2025 · cited by 1
This study utilizes graph neural networks on neuroimaging data and notes that individuals with nonsuicidal self-injury exhibit abnormal pain perception and altered pain-processing neural circuits.
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Attenuation of Self-Induced Pain in Women With Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Healthy Controls.
2025 · cited by 1
This study finds that individuals engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury display significantly higher pressure pain thresholds and a greater prevalence of sensory attenuation compared to controls.
Altered cortical structure and networks associated with psychosocial adversity and pain hyposensitivity in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury.
2025 · cited by 0
This research links adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury to altered pain sensitivity and shows that reduced cortical thickness correlates with differences in pain tolerance.