The interrelation between interpretation biases, threat expectancies and pain-related attentional processing.

Frederick H F ChanTodd JacksonJanet H HsiaoAntoni B ChanTom Joseph Barry

Published in: European journal of pain (London, England) (2020)

Negative interpretation biases may be associated with greater threat expectancies for an upcoming experimental pain task. Anticipation of bodily harm may induce a stimulus non-specific hypervigilant style of scanning of pain-related scenes.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
working memory
mass spectrometry