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2022 Dec 26


Pain Med

Preserved distraction analgesia but greater impact of pain on task performance in old compared with young subjects.

Authors

Lithfous S, Després O, Devanne J, Pebayle T, Dufour A
Pain Med. 2022 Dec 26.
PMID: 36571502.

Abstract

In this study, we compared two working memory conditions to study the analgesic effect of a distraction in elderly versus young people and the effect of pain on performance on the distracting task.