Background and objective Biopsychosocial conceptualizations of clinical pain conditions
recognize the multi‐faceted nature of pain experience and its intersection with mental …

Objective: The fear-avoidance (FA) model of chronic pain describes how individuals
experiencing acute pain may become trapped into a vicious circle of chronic disability and …

Research studies focusing on the fear-avoidance model have expanded considerably since
the review by Vlaeyen and Linton (Vlaeyen JWS & Linton, SJ (2000). Fear-avoidance and its …

Neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies have shown that nociceptive stimuli elicit
responses in an extensive cortical network including somatosensory, insular and cingulate …

Clinical pain is a serious public health issue. Treatment of pain-related suffering requires
knowledge of how pain signals are initially interpreted and subsequently transmitted and …

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 …

A wealth of research addresses intra-individual determinants of pain, distress and disability.
In contrast, limited attention has been devoted to the interpersonal domain. It is well …

The perception of pain is the result of a complex dynamic system that codes, transports and
processes nociceptive signals. The relationship between nociceptive information and pain is …

Attention is a key concept in many theories of pain perception. A clinically popular idea is
that pain is more intense in persons who are hypervigilant for or bias their attention to pain …

Central sensitivity syndromes (CSSs) represent a heterogeneous group of disorders (eg,
fibromyalgia [FM], irritable bowel syndrome [IBS], chronic headache, temporomandibular …