Attention processes in chronic fatigue syndrome: Attentional bias for health-related threat and the role of attentional control

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-16

  Hou, Ruihua ^a   Moss Morris, Rona ^b   Risdale, Anna ^c   Lynch, Jeannette ^c   Jeevaratnam, Preshan ^a   Bradley, Brendan P ^c   Mogg, Karin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention Network Test; Attentional bias; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Executive attention control; Visual Probe Task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROOP TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888042919     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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