Behavioral and neuronal investigations of hypervigilance in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.

Painful stimuli are of utmost behavioral relevance and thereby affect attentional resources. In health, variable effects of pain on attention have been observed, indicating alerting as well as distracting effects of pain. In the human brain, these effects are closely related to modulations of neuron...

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Main Authors: Laura Tiemann, Enrico Schulz, Andreas Winkelmann, Joram Ronel, Peter Henningsen, Markus Ploner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3324411?pdf=render