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1 Literature review
1.1 The Prevalence and Costs of Chronic Pain
1.2 The role of pain related fear and confrontational thoughts
1.3 Research plan and hypothesis
1.4 Importance and innovations
2 Study 1 Causal Effects of Fear of Pain and Confrontational Thoughts on Laboratory Pain Perception
2.1 Introduction for threat and challenge appraisals on pain
2.2 Method for threat and challenge appraisals manipulation
2.3 Pain related results caused by threat and challenge appraisals
2.4 Discussion for the causal effect of threat and challenge appraisals on pain
2.5 Conclusion for study 1
3 Study 2 Identifying At-Risk Subgroups for Acute Post-Surgical Pain:A Classification Tree Analysis
3.1 Introduction for the pre-surgery predictors for post-surgical pain
3.2 Method for pre-surgery measures and post-surgery pain assessments
3.3 Results of logistic regression and classification tree analysis
3.4 Discussion of impact of pre-surgery predictors on acute post-surgical pain
3.5 Conclusion of study 2
4 Study 3 Pre-surgery Influences of the Transition from Acute to Chronic Post-Surgical Pain: A Growth Curve Analysis Study
4.1 Introduction of pre-surgery predictors for transition from acute to post-surgical pain
4.2 Method for pre-surgery measures and post-surgical pain assessments
4.3 Results of pre-surgery influences on transition from acute to chronic post-surgical pain
4.4 Discussion for the pre-surgery influences on the transition from acute to chronic post-surgical pain
4.5 Conclusion of study 3
5 Study 4 The N2pc as a Neural Marker for Attention Allocation and Future Impairment Among Pain-Fearful Adults with Chronic Pain
5.1 Introduction for the influences of fear on attentional bias
5.2 Method of dot-probe task and ERP assessments
5.3 Results of attentional bias indexed by N2pc and LPP
5.4 Discussion of the influences of fear on attentional bias within chronic pain patients
5.5 Conclusion of Study 4
6 Study 5 Attention allocation to pain information within chronic pain patients under higher threat context:an ERP study
6.1 Introduction of Attention Allocation under Higher Threat Context
6.2 Method of Dot-Probe Task under Higher Threat Context and ERP Assessments
6.3 Results of attentional biased index by N2pc and LPP under higher threat context
6.4 Discussion of attention bias under higher threat context and its association with future pain adjustment
6.5 Conclusion of study 5
7 Study 6 Attention allocation to painful facial expression predicted future pain intensity within chronic pain patients:An ERP Study
7.1 Introduction of attentional bias influences on future pain adjustment within chronic pain patients
7.2 Method of dot-probe task and ERP assessments
7.3 Results of attentional bias elicited by pain information and its association with future pain adjustment
7.4 Discussion of attentional bias influences on future pain adjustment within chronic pain patients
7.5 Conclusion of study 6
8 General Discussion
8.1 Strengths
8.2 Limitations
9 Conclusion
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