Marlene Schrimpf's research while affiliated with Danube University Krems and other places

... Tobacco usage is associated with a greater incidence and prevalence of pain ( Goldberg et al., 2000;Shiri et al., 2010b), while multimorbidity has profound consequences on the occurrence ( Schneider et al., 2007) and worsening of pain and physical functioning (Calders and Van Ginckel, 2018). Similarly, sleep has been posited as a key regulator of pain modulation, with effects on somatosensory sensitivity (Campbell et al., 2015;Schrimpf et al., 2015), pain severity (Gerhart et al., 2017), and interference ( Kothari et al., 2015). Although sleep and pain are temporally related, sleep quality appears to have a more robust influence on pain symptomatology than vice versa ( Finan et al., 2013;Gerhart et al., 2017), and may even serve as a risk factor for pain development and chronification (Gupta et al., 2007;Finan et al., 2013). ...

... 44 Some neuroimaging studies even provided a neurobiological basis for this somatosensory amplification phenomenon. 45,46 Apart from these biological explanations, it is necessary to consider psychological, social, and cultural factors, especially when interpreting comorbidity in claims data. 26 The claims data kept the record only if the patient was aware of the problem and sought medical consultation. ...

... No information was collected regarding other influencing environmental and psychological factors, e.g. sleep deprivation (Schrimpf et al. 2015). Though all experimental pain measurements were conducted by the same investigator, no blinding was performed. ...