People with chronic pain commonly report impaired cognitive function. However, to date,
there has been no systematic evaluation of the body of literature concerning cognitive …

This meta-analysis investigated whether attentional bias, that is, the preferential allocation of
attention to information that is related to pain, is a ubiquitous phenomenon. We also …

MR-based brain imaging technologies provide a suite of functional and structural metrics
that can be used to test hypotheses about the CNS mechanisms underlying pain perception …

Because pain signals potential harm to the organism, it immediately attracts attention and
motivates decisions and action. However, pain is also subject to motivations—an aspect that …

Background: Chronic pain involves hypervigilance for pain-related stimuli. Selective
attention to pain-related stimuli, known as pain attentional bias (AB), can exacerbate chronic …

Psychological interventions are now well established as a core part of modern pain practice.
Randomized controlled trials (RCT) of psychological treatment for chronic pain were first …

It has been demonstrated that visual inputs can modulate pain. However, the influence of
skin color on pain perception is unknown. Red skin is associated to inflamed, hot and more …

To investigate how acceptance of illness affects chronic pain in terms of attention towards
pain and fearful thinking of pain. 62 participants (50 women) with chronic pain carried a …

Nociceptive stimuli can induce a transient suppression of electroencephalographic
oscillations in the alpha frequency band (ie, alpha event-related desynchronization, α-ERD) …

Objective To examine whether age and developmental differences in selective attention
influence young children's differential responses to interactive and passive distraction …