Increasing optimism abolishes pain-induced impairments in executive task performance

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 334-340

  Boselie, Jantine J L M ^a   Vancleef, Linda M G ^a   Smeets, Tom ^a   Peters, Madelon L ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Executive functioning; Intervention; Optimism; Pain; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATASTROPHIZING; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL PAIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIMISM; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING; INTERVENTION; OPTIMISM; PAIN; SELF-REGULATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892786920     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.10.014     Document Type: Article

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