Research Article: Vigilance to Painful Laser Stimuli is Associated with Increased State Anxiety and Tense Arousal
Introduction:
Pathological vigilance to painful and pain-related stimuli is linked to individual burden of chronic pain and predictive of post-op pain. – This burden of pain is in turn related to increased anxiety and arousal. , Despite the clinical importance of hypervigilance to painful stimuli, most studies reporting effects of pain on attentional mechanisms use visual attention-bias tasks to pain-related stimuli such as pain-related words or faces of those in pain, or self-report measures such as the Pain Vigilance and…
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