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Attentional bias toward pictorial representations of pain in individuals with chronic headache

Attentional bias toward pictorial representations of pain in individuals with chronic headache
Attentional bias toward pictorial representations of pain in individuals with chronic headache
Objectives: This study investigated attentional biases for pictorial headache-related stimuli in individuals with chronic headache and healthy controls.

Methods: Attentional bias was assessed using a visual probe task that presented headache-related images and neutral images at 2 exposure duration conditions, 500 and 1250?ms.

Results: The results indicated that individuals with chronic daily headache showed a significantly greater overall attentional bias across presentation times toward headache-related stimuli compared with the controls, which indicates a bias in both initial orienting and maintained attention to pain cues in this group.

Discussion: It is concluded that both hypervigilance and sustained processing are critical factors for the maintenance of chronic pain.
0749-8047
244-250
Schoth, Daniel E.
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Liossi, Christina
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Schoth, Daniel E.
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Liossi, Christina
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Schoth, Daniel E. and Liossi, Christina (2010) Attentional bias toward pictorial representations of pain in individuals with chronic headache. Clinical Journal of Pain, 26 (3), 244-250. (doi:10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181bed0f9). (PMID:20173439)

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Objectives: This study investigated attentional biases for pictorial headache-related stimuli in individuals with chronic headache and healthy controls.

Methods: Attentional bias was assessed using a visual probe task that presented headache-related images and neutral images at 2 exposure duration conditions, 500 and 1250?ms.

Results: The results indicated that individuals with chronic daily headache showed a significantly greater overall attentional bias across presentation times toward headache-related stimuli compared with the controls, which indicates a bias in both initial orienting and maintained attention to pain cues in this group.

Discussion: It is concluded that both hypervigilance and sustained processing are critical factors for the maintenance of chronic pain.

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Published date: March 2010
Organisations: Human Wellbeing

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Local EPrints ID: 146277
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/146277
ISSN: 0749-8047
PURE UUID: 64765668-71fe-47c3-88bf-5a0f024f5897
ORCID for Christina Liossi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-6377

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Date deposited: 22 Apr 2010 10:27
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:51

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