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Overview

Ann Meulders is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain management and placebo effect
  • Pain mechanisms and treatments
  • Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research
  • Mindfulness and compassion interventions
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes

Meulders has published extensively in several specialized journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Pain
  • PeerJ
  • Clinical Psychology Review

Some recent notable papers authored by Meulders include:

  • "Fear in the context of pain: Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research," 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "The neural correlates of pain-related fear: A meta-analysis comparing fear conditioning studies using painful and non-painful stimuli," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (coauthor)
  • "An experimental investigation into the mediating role of pain-related fear in boosting nocebo hyperalgesia," 2020, Pain (coauthor)
  • "Safety behaviours or safety precautions? The role of subtle avoidance in anxiety disorders in the context of chronic physical illness," 2022, Clinical Psychology Review (coauthor)
  • "Optimizing Long-term Outcomes of Exposure for Chronic Primary Pain from the Lens of Learning Theory," 2021, Journal of Pain (coauthor)

Collaborations form an important part of Meulders's research activities, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Johan W.S. Vlaeyen
  • Rena Gatzounis
  • Kristof Vandael
  • Eveliina Glogan
  • Felipe José Jandre dos Reis

Best Publications

  • Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Mareike M. Menz;Marta Andreatta;Miguel A. Fullana

  • The acquisition of fear of movement-related pain and associative learning: a novel pain-relevant human fear conditioning paradigm

    Ann Meulders;Debora Vansteenwegen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Fear in the context of pain : Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research

    Ann Meulders

  • Pain as a threat to the social self: a motivational account.

    Kai Karos;Amanda C de C Williams;Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Johan W S Vlaeyen;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • From fear of movement-related pain and avoidance to chronic pain disability: a state-of-the-art review

    Ann Meulders

  • Bogus Visual Feedback Alters Onset of Movement-Evoked Pain in People With Neck Pain

    Daniel S. Harvie;Markus Broecker;Ross T. Smith;Ann Meulders

  • Avoidance behavior in chronic pain research: a cold case revisited.

    Stéphanie Volders;Yannick Boddez;Steven De Peuter;Ann Meulders

  • Differences in pain-related fear acquisition and generalization: an experimental study comparing patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls

    Ann Meulders;Anne Jans;Johan W. S. Vlaeyen

  • The acquisition and generalization of cued and contextual pain-related fear: an experimental study using a voluntary movement paradigm

    Ann Meulders;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • The use of safety-seeking behavior in exposure-based treatments for fear and anxiety: Benefit or burden? A meta-analytic review

    Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Tom Van Daele;Stéphanie Volders;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • Competing goals attenuate avoidance behavior in the context of pain.

    Nathalie Claes;Nathalie Claes;Kai Karos;Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Geert Crombez

  • Acquisition and extinction of operant pain-related avoidance behavior using a 3 degrees-of-freedom robotic arm.

    Ann Meulders;Mathijs Franssen;Riet Fonteyne;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • Women, but not men, report increasingly more pain during repeated (un)predictable painful electrocutaneous stimulation: Evidence for mediation by fear of pain.

    Ann Meulders;Debora Vansteenwegen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Safety behavior can hamper the extinction of fear of movement-related pain: An experimental investigation in healthy participants

    Stéphanie Volders;Ann Meulders;Steven De Peuter;Bram Vervliet

  • Can Experimentally Induced Positive Affect Attenuate Generalization of Fear of Movement-Related Pain?

    Nicole Geschwind;Michel Meulders;Madelon L. Peters;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Reduction of fear of movement-related pain and pain-related anxiety: An associative learning approach using a voluntary movement paradigm

    Ann Meulders;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Can positive affect attenuate (persistent) pain? State of the art and clinical implications.

    Marjolein M Hanssen;Madelon L Peters;Jantine J Boselie;Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders

  • Generalization Gradients in Cued and Contextual Pain-Related Fear: An Experimental Study in Healthy Participants

    Ann Meulders;Nele Vandebroek;Bram Vervliet;Johan W. S. Vlaeyen;Johan W. S. Vlaeyen

  • Classical Conditioning Differences Associated With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review

    Daniel S. Harvie;Daniel S. Harvie;G. Lorimer Moseley;G. Lorimer Moseley;Susan L. Hillier;Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders

  • Extinction of Fear Generalization: A Comparison Between Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy Control Participants.

    Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Michel Meulders;Iris Stouten;Jozef De Bie

  • Positive Affect Protects Against Deficient Safety Learning During Extinction of Fear of Movement-Related Pain in Healthy Individuals Scoring Relatively High on Trait Anxiety

    Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Michel Meulders;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

  • Contingency learning deficits and generalization in chronic unilateral hand pain patients.

    Ann Meulders;Ann Meulders;Daniel S. Harvie;Jane K. Bowering;Suzanne Caragianis

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Madelon L. Peters
Madelon L. Peters Maastricht University

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