Selective attention towards painful faces among chronic pain patients: Evidence from a modified version of the dot-probe

Pain

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 42-47

  Khatibi, Ali ^a   Dehghani, Mohsen ^a   Sharpe, Louise ^b   Asmundson, Gordon J G ^c   Pouretemad, Hamidreza ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Chronic pain; Hypervigilance; Painful faces; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FACES PAIN SCALE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 60249095138     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.11.020     Document Type: Article

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