Objectives: It is not known whether psychosocial chronic pain treatments produce benefits
through the unique mechanisms specified by theory. Fundamental to gaining an accurate …

Objectives: Pain catastrophizing is reliably associated with pain reports during experimental
pain in healthy, pain-free subjects and in people with chronic pain. It also correlates with self …

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that catastrophic thinking about pain
enhances attentional interference in healthy volunteers. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether …

In this research, meta-analyses were performed to evaluate associations between primary
appraisals of pain as a source of threat and/or challenge and responses to 1) noxious …

Elevated fear of pain is believed to denote a potential mechanism through which pain is
maintained over time; however, our knowledge about fear of pain, its measurement, and its …

This Commentary addresses some common conceptual errors and methodological issues
raised by the Focus article by Geisser, Robinson, and Riley. One conceptual error, the …

The prevalence of neuropathic pain approaches 10% in Canada and the United States.
Given the aging population and the increasing survival rates following interventions for …

Methods: The current prospective, observational study was conducted at Rambam Health
Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. PCS was obtained in 48 pain-free patients a day before an …

Pain draws on attentional resources, thereby disturbing the pursuit of ongoing activities.
Several studies have made use of the primary task paradigm to study the disruptive function …

Factors underlying individual differences in pain responding are incompletely understood,
but are likely to include genetic influences on basal pain sensitivity in addition to …