Hypervigilance and attentional fixedness in chronic musculoskeletal pain: Consistency of findings across modified stroop and dot-probe tasks

Journal of Pain

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 497-506

  Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a   Wright, Kristi D ^b   Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Dot probe; Emotion; Modified Stroop; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BONE PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISASTER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOOD; MYALGIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEAR; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23444456571     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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