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- •Patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls performed a battery of attention tasks.
- •Participants completed the tasks once during induced cuff pain and once without.
- •Pain induction primarily affected attention span performance.
- •Patients with fibromyalgia had poorer performance on the divided attention task.
- •Chronic pain and induced acute pain have different effects on attention.
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This research is partially supported by an unrestricted grant for research from Purdue Pharmaceutical.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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