The gender context of pain

E Keogh - Health Psychology Review, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Pain is a major source of global suffering, with women bearing the greatest burden.
Alongside biology, psychological and social factors, including gender, help explain these …

Attentional bias to somatosensory stimuli in chronic pain patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P Broadbent, C Liossi, DE Schoth - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the evidence pertaining to
attentional bias for painful and nonpainful somatosensory stimuli in individuals with chronic …

Attentional control moderates the relationship between pain catastrophizing and selective attention to pain faces on the antisaccade task

S Ranjbar, M Mazidi, L Sharpe, M Dehghani… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cognitive models of chronic pain emphasize the critical role of pain catastrophizing in
attentional bias to pain-related stimuli. The aim of this study was (a) to investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of the attentional bias towards pain-related faces in fibromyalgia patients: An ERP study using a dot-probe task

R Fernandes-Magalhaes, D Ferrera, I Peláez… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Background One of the major cognitive deficits in fibromyalgia has been linked to the
hypervigilance phenomenon. It is mainly reflected as a negative bias for allocating …

Pain-related attentional processes: a systematic review of eye-tracking research

FHF Chan, H Suen, T Jackson, JWS Vlaeyen… - Clinical Psychology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biases in the way that people direct their attention towards or away from pain-related
information are hypothesised to contribute to the onset and severity of pain-related …

Beyond the modified dot-probe task: A meta-analysis of the efficacy of alternate attention bias modification tasks across domains

T Rooney, L Sharpe, J Todd, SC Michalski… - Clinical Psychology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Attention biases towards disease-relevant cues have been implicated in numerous
disorders and health conditions, such as anxiety, cancer, drug-use disorders, and chronic …

[PDF][PDF] What can we learn about selective attention processes in individuals with chronic pain using reaction time tasks? A systematic review and meta-analysis

AN Abudoush, A Noureen, M Panagioti, E Poliakoff… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Information-processing biases such as attentional, interpretation, and memory
biases are believed to play a role in exacerbating and maintaining chronic pain (CP) …

Chronic primary pain in the COVID-19 pandemic: how uncertainty and stress impact on functioning and suffering

A Meulders, JWS Vlaeyen, AWM Evers, AJA Köke… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
COVID-19 is a highly infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS)-CoV-2. 40 Owing to the virus' rapid spread across the globe, the World Health …

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

M Mazidi, M Dehghani, L Sharpe… - British Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: This study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined the
moderating effect of attentional control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and …

[HTML][HTML] The good, the bad, and the ugly—chances, challenges, and clinical implications of avoidance research in psychosomatic medicine

F Labrenz, ML Woud, S Elsenbruch… - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Avoidance behaviors are shaped by associative learning processes in response to fear of
impending threats, particularly physical harm. As part of a defensive repertoire, avoidance is …