Persistent pain can lead to difficulties in executive task performance. Three core executive functions that are often postulated are inhibition, updating and shifting. Optimism, the tendency to expect that good things happen in the future, has been shown to protect against pain-induced performance deterioration in the executive function updating. This study tested whether this protective effect of a temporary optimistic state by means of a writing and visualization exercise extended to the executive function shifting.
from The Journal of Pain http://ift.tt/2ibUfxV
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