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Hypervigilance is the excessive predisposition to attend to a certain class of events, or the excessive readiness to select and respond to a certain kind of stimulus from the external or internal environment. In the context of fear of movement, hypervigilance concerns the increased attention to pain, potential signals of pain and other possible somatosensory signals. General hypervigilance is the tendency of highly anxious individuals to pay attention to other irrelevant (neutral) stimuli.
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(2007). Hypervigilance. In: Schmidt, R., Willis, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_1824
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