The purpose of this article is to describe the current state‐of‐the‐art regarding the co‐ occurrence of the anxiety disorders and chronic pain. First, we describe the core …
This meta-analysis investigated whether attentional bias, that is, the preferential allocation of attention to information that is related to pain, is a ubiquitous phenomenon. We also …
There is increasing evidence that chronic pain problems are characterised by alterations in brain structure and function. Chronic back pain is no exception. There is a growing …
DE Schoth, VD Nunes, C Liossi - Clinical psychology review, 2012 - Elsevier
Research investigating the presence of attentional bias in chronic pain has produced mixed results. The purpose of this review is to summarise former research using the visual-probe …
T Pincus, RJEM Smeets, MJ Simmonds… - The Clinical journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background The model of fear avoidance proposes that fear of movement in back pain patients is an obstacle to recovery and leads over time to increased disability. Therefore …
Potential applications of attention bias modification (ABM) for acute and chronic pain patients are investigated. In study 1, 54 acute back pain patients (46 of whom completed the …
DR Vago, Y Nakamura - Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2011 - Springer
The current study investigated the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based meditation training (MMT) intervention on attentional bias, engagement and disengagement of pain …
Abstract Information-processing biases such as attentional, interpretation, and memory biases are believed to play a role in exacerbating and maintaining chronic pain (CP) …
Evidence that patients with chronic pain selectively attend to pain-related stimuli presented in modified Stroop and dot-probe paradigms is mixed. The pain-related stimuli used in these …