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Selective attention for pain-related information in healthy individuals: the role of pain and fear.
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Attentional bias for pain words was neither found to be related to trait variables like anxiety, depression, catastrophising, fear of pain, and pain vigilance, nor as a function of pain per se.Citations
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Time-course of attentional bias for pain-related cues in chronic daily headache sufferers.
TL;DR: The results indicated that individuals suffering from chronic headaches showed a significantly greater attentional bias at 1250ms compared to the controls, which indicates a bias in maintained attention to pain cues in this group.
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Role of attentional focus on bodily sensations in sensitivity to itch and pain.
TL;DR: Investigating the role of attentional focus in sensitivity to various somatosensory stimuli evoking both itch and pain sensations in healthy female subjects indicated that focusing on bodily sensations is associated with higher levels of experienced itching and pain but not with tolerance to stimuli.
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Effects of Chronic Pain and Pain-Related Fear on Orienting and Maintenance of Attention: An Eye Movement Study
Zhou Yang,Todd Jackson,Hong Chen +2 more
TL;DR: Specific biases in visual attention related to fear of pain and chronic pain during early stages of information processing that were not evident on the basis of later behavior responses to probes were identified.
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Attention modification in persons with fibromyalgia: a double blind, randomized clinical trial.
TL;DR: Preliminary results offer a promising new avenue for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain that warrants additional research.
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Prediction of experimental pain sensitivity by attention to pain-related stimuli in healthy individuals.
TL;DR: Entering the attentional bias indices from the dot-probe task showed that an increased bias to pain words is related to higher experimental pain sensitivity, which confirms the hypothesis that vigilance to pain sensations or stimuli is associated with lower pain sensitivity in healthy individuals.
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The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods.
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