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Project

Pain by association: a classical conditioning approach
Code
01CD6422
Duration
10 December 2022 → 09 April 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • 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.