Processing of Emotional Faces in Patients with Chronic Pain Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study

ObjectiveProblems in emotion processing potentially contribute to the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Theories focusing on attentional processing have suggested that dysfunctional attention deployment toward emotional information, i.e., attentional biases for negative emotions, might en...

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Main Authors: Katrin Elisabeth Giel, Sarah Paganini, Irena Schank, Paul Enck, Stephan Zipfel, Florian Junne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00063/full