Michael E. Geisser

TL;DR: The findings suggest that pain catastrophizing, independent of the influence of depression, is significantly associated with increased activity in brain areas related to anticipation of pain, attention to pain, and emotional aspects of pain.

TL;DR: The results suggest that both questionnaires have good predictive validity among chronic pain patients, and decisions regarding the use of one questionnaire rather than the other may depend upon the goals of the user and the setting within which the questionnaire is used.

TL;DR: There are parallel, somewhat independent neural pain-processing networks for sensory and affective pain elements in patients with fibromyalgia, suggesting that addressing an individual's depression will not necessarily have an impact on the sensory dimension of pain.

TL;DR: The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), a measure of coping in chronic pain patients, was subjected to item-level exploratory factor analysis and found that the correlations between CSQ factor scores and measures of pain, depression, and disability were in the same direction in this data set as those previously reported.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that persons with fibromyalgia display altered perception of both pressure and thermal stimulation, even at innocuous levels, and suggest that catastrophic thoughts about pain may play a role in increased pain perception in this population.