Impact of Chronic Somatoform and Osteoarthritis Pain on Conscious and Preconscious Cognitive Processing

• Published in: The journal of pain Vol. 9; no. 10; pp. 927 - 939
• Main Authors: Dohrenbusch, Ralf, Buchanan, Heather, Lipka, Sigrid, Ott, Ralf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Anesthesia & Perioperative Care; Attention - physiology; Chronic Disease; Chronic pain; Cognition - physiology; cognitive processing; Consciousness; Depression - physiopathology; Depression - psychology; Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology; Female; Humans; implicit memory; Male; Mental Processes - physiology; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Osteoarthritis - complications; Osteoarthritis - physiopathology; Pain - etiology; Pain - physiopathology; Pain - psychology; Pain Medicine; process-dissociation-paradigm; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Sensation - physiology; somatoform disorder; Somatoform Disorders - diagnosis; Somatoform Disorders - physiopathology; Somatoform Disorders - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Unconscious (Psychology); Verbal Behavior - physiology; cognitive processing; somatoform disorder; implicit memory; Chronic pain; process-dissociation-paradigm

Abstract The study investigates the impact of chronic pain (CP) on conscious and preconscious cognitive processes and on guessing behavior and examines the mediating effect of a depressive state. Twenty-eight patients with CP due to hip osteoarthritis, 32 patients with a somatoform disorder includin...