Introduction: Fibromyalgia is a condition with symptoms of pain, physical function difficulties,
and emotional problems, but is also characterized by complaints of poor cognition (often …

Research into the neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms involved in fibromyalgia
has progressed remarkably in recent years. Despite this, current accounts of fibromyalgia fail …

Chronic pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that persists for more than
3 months and is often accompanied by symptoms such as depression, fatigue, sleep …

Abstract Information-processing biases such as attentional, interpretation, and memory
biases are believed to play a role in exacerbating and maintaining chronic pain (CP) …

Patients with fibromyalgia frequently report cognitive complaints. In this study we examined
performance on 2 cognitive inhibition tests, the Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT) and the …

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain, clinical symptoms that include
cognitive and sleep disturbances, and other abnormalities such as increased sensitivity to …

Objectives The hypervigilance model of pain perception states that patients with
fibromyalgia (FM) have an enhanced sensitivity to aversive and non-aversive stimuli. Few …

Contemporary models of chronic musculoskeletal pain emphasize the critical roles of fear,
anxiety, and avoidance as well as biases in attention in the development and maintenance …

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 …

The mechanisms causing cognitive problems in chronic pain patients are not well
understood. We used the Stroop color word task (SCWT) to investigate distraction-induced …