Time course of attentional bias to painful facial expressions and the moderating role of attentional control: an eye-tracking study.

Mahdi MazidiMohsen DehghaniLouise SharpeBehrooz DolatshahiSeyran RanjbarAli Khatibi

Published in: British journal of pain (2019)

This study supported the vigilance-avoidance pattern of attention to painful facial expressions and a moderation effect of attentional control in the association between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias to happy faces among pain patients.

Keyphrases

working memory
chronic pain
end stage renal disease
pain management
neuropathic pain
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
spinal cord
patient reported outcomes
postoperative pain