(162) Errors, Reaction Times, and Psychological Activation are Related to Anxiety and Pain during Experimental Vigilance to Pain

Although hypervigilance may play an important role in clinical pain syndromes, experimental vigilance toward pain is infrequently studied. We studied experimental vigilance to pain by assessing performance during a Continuous Performance Task (CPT), presented in four blocks, in which subjects respond to moderately painful targets occurring in a train of mildly painful nontargets. We assessed detected targets (hits), non-detected targets (misses), reaction times (RTs), and psychological activation (tense arousal).
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research