Pain-Related Avoidance Behavior: Robotic Arm-Reaching Paradigm l Protocol Preview

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Investigating Pain-Related Avoidance Behavior using a Robotic Arm-Reaching Paradigm - a 2 minute Preview of the Experimental Protocol

Eveliina Glogan, Rena Gatzounis, Kristof Vandael, Mathijs Franssen, Johan W. S. Vlaeyen, Ann Meulders
Maastricht University, Experimental Health Psychology; KU Leuven, Research Group Health Psychology; KU Leuven, Laboratory of Biological Psychology;

Avoidance is central to chronic pain disability, yet adequate paradigms for examining pain-related avoidance are lacking. Therefore, we developed a paradigm that allows investigating how pain-related avoidance behavior is learned (acquisition), spreads to other stimuli (generalization), can be mitigated (extinction), and how it may subsequently re-emerge (spontaneous recovery).

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