Cognitive Biases Toward Pain: Implications for a Neurocognitive Processing Perspective in Chronic Pain and its Interaction With Depression

Conclusions: Current research supports the importance of individual diagnosis of chronic pain patients and their response patterns of pain, psychological processing, and information processing. This leads to the conclusion that depressed pain patients need other clinical interventions when compared with depressed patients without pain. Previous research showed that a combination of a cognitive-behavioral therapy with mindfulness meditation seems to be a promising approach.
Source: The Clinical Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research