ArticlePloS one2024
Executive functioning is associated to everyday interference of pain in patients with chronic pain.
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- Beyond the jaw: vocal, oropharyngeal and cognitive-linguistic biomarkers for precision pain phenotyping in TMD.Journal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2026Review
- The indirect effects of cognitive function in the association between stroke and quality of life among older adults in a rural community: A cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Efficacy of Pain Neuroscience Education Combined with Exercise in Older Adults with Chronic Pain: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of Physiotherapy Interventions on Executive Function in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Neurology international · 2026Review
- Sleep Quality and Cognitive Performance in Chronic Primary Musculoskeletal Pain: An Observational Study With Healthy Controls.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Observational
- Harnessing Extended Reality for Neurocognitive Training in Chronic Pain: State of the Art, Opportunities, and Future Directions.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Dysfunction in executive functions is common among patients with chronic pain. However, the relationships between executive functioning and pain management have not been extensively studied. In this study, 189 outpatients (160 women, 29 men; mean age 33.15) with chronic pain underwent an extensive neuropsychological assessment, including several tests of executive functions. In addition, all participants completed self-assessment questionnaires regarding pain and interference of pain in everyday life. After adjusting for effects of age, education, and depression, several aspects of executive functioning were significantly associated with self-assessed everyday interference of pain (rs = 0.13-0.22, all ps < 0.05). This indicates that lower performance on tests of executive functioning was significantly associated with a higher degree of pain interference and a lower degree of life control. Pain characteristics such as pain intensity, pain duration, and pain spreading were not associated with executive functioning. These results suggest that preserved executive functions are related to better coping with pain, but not directly to the pain itself, in patients with chronic pain. Depression was also associated with self-management of pain, indicating that patients with lower executive functioning in combination with depression may need special attention during rehabilitation.
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