Code
01CD6422
Duration
10 December 2022 → 09 April 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Health psychology
- Psychopathology
Keywords
chronic pain
associative learning
virtual reality
hallucination
Classical conditioning
false alarms
Project description
It has been theorized that classical conditioning may explain how chronic pain develops. Pain gets associated to other neutral and non-nociceptive stimuli during injury time, which become responsible for causing pain in the future. This idea remains untested. The aim of this PhD has been to provide evidence and a clear answer.