The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and
beliefs that someone has about pain. It is therefore not exclusively driven by the noxious …

Although pain reduction is commonly the primary outcome in chronic pain clinical trials,
physical functioning is also important. A challenge in designing chronic pain trials to …

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 …

Recent research has found individual differences in back pain patients due to behavioral
avoidance vs persistence. However, there is a lack of prospective studies of nonspecific low …

The experiment investigated the impact of sleep restriction on pain perception and related
evoked potential correlates (laser-evoked potentials, LEPs). Ten healthy subjects with good …

Research on the effectiveness of distraction as a method of pain control is inconclusive. One
mechanism pertains to the motivational relevance of distraction tasks. In this study the …

Background Previous research has demonstrated the efficacy of cognitive engagement in
reducing concurrent pain. However, little is known about the role of individual differences in …

A lack of personalized approaches in non-medication pain management has prevented
these alternative forms of treatment from achieving the desired efficacy. One hundred and …

The present study investigated the role of observer pain catastrophizing and personal pain
experience as possible moderators of attention to varying levels of facial pain expression in …

Although many studies have investigated the effectiveness of distraction as a method of pain
control, the cognitive processes by which attentional re-direction is achieved, remain …