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The disruptive nature of pain: An experimental investigation

Crombez, Geert, Eccleston, Chris, Baeyens, Frank, Eelen, Paul·1996·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/s0005-7967(96)00058-7
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Pain interrupts, distracts and takes effort to ignore. Focusing our research attention upon this central aspect of pain experience, an experimental paradigm is introduced to study the disruptive nature of pain. Healthy volunteers were exposed several times to an electrical pain stimulus and a control stimulus. Tone probes were presented immediately (100 ms) and later on (1500 ms) after pain/control onset, and after pain/control offset (1000 ms). Results clearly showed disruption during pain. This disruptive effect was most marked immediately after onset. No differential results between pain and control conditions were observed later on during the pain experience. These results are interpreted within current cognitive and psychophysiological theories of attention. Emphasis is placed upon the importance of the experimental investigation of the role of attention in pain processing.

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  • Research has focused on the characteristics of pain situations that lead to the initial intrusion into the space of attention, including variables such as intensity, novelty, expectation, fear, or catastrophizing.

    “Because the presence of pain does not always interfere with ongoing action, research has focused on the characteristics of pain situations that lead to the initial intrusion into the space of attention (or attentional interference), including variables such as intensity, novelty, expectation, fear, or catastrophizing.”

    From A Contextual Analysis of Attention to Chronic Pain: What the Patient Does With Their Pain Might Be More Important Than Their Awareness or Vigilance Alone (2007) · cites this paper as [5]

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Authors
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F., & Eelen, P.
Affiliations
  • Fund for Scientific Research (BE)
  • KU Leuven (BE)
Corresponding author
Crombez, Geert
ORCID
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1996-11
Volume
34
Issue
11-12
Pages
911-918
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0005-7967(96)00058-7
OpenAlex
W1970079829
Cited by
156
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
Keywords
pain, attention, attentional disruption, pain processing, pain experience
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Arousal, Attention, Electroshock, Female, Humans, Male, Pain, Pitch Discrimination, Pain Threshold

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