The construct of pain catastrophizing has emerged as playing an important role in pain. This construct has earlier been defined as “…an exaggerated negative orientation toward actual or anticipated pain experience…current conceptualizations most often describe it in terms of appraisal or a set of maladaptive beliefs.” There has also been a great deal of additional research which has demonstrated its heuristic value in areas such as pain-treatment outcomes, genetics research, as well as in the area of brain imaging. The current Special Issue includes some of the most recent studies of pain catastrophizing, and highlights the increasing complexity of this construct, which will need to be better understood and validated for the future development of the most variable overall model of it.

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“疼痛灾难化特刊”介绍

疼痛灾难化的结构在疼痛中扮演着重要的角色。这种结构早先被定义为“......对实际或预期的疼痛体验的过度消极取向......目前的概念化最常根据评估或一组适应不良的信念来描述它。” 还有大量其他研究证明了其在疼痛治疗结果、遗传学研究以及脑成像领域等领域的启发式价值。当前的特刊包括一些关于疼痛灾难化的最新研究，并强调了这种结构日益复杂的情况，需要更好地理解和验证其最可变的整体模型的未来发展。