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Overview

John W. Burns is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant emphasis on Pharmacology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Burns has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Pain
  • BMC Medicine
  • Journal of Pain
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • PAIN Reports

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and behavior therapy for the treatment of chronic pain: randomized controlled trial" (2021) published in Pain
  • "Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and pain education for people with chronic pain: Tests of treatment mechanisms." (2020) published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Other relevant recent papers by collaborators and related work in the field are:

  • "Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures" (2023) published in Pain
  • "Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain" (2020) published in Clinical Journal of Pain
  • "Psychosocial Correlates of Objective, Performance-Based, and Patient-Reported Physical Function Among Patients with Heterogeneous Chronic Pain" (2020) published in Journal of Pain Research

Frequent co-authors in Burns' collaborations include:

  • Francis J. Keefe
  • Beverly E. Thorn
  • Mark P. Jensen
  • Laura S. Porter
  • Andrea K. Newman

Best Publications

  • Do changes in cognitive factors influence outcome following multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain? A cross-lagged panel analysis.

    John W. Burns;Amanda Kubilus;Stephen Bruehl;R. Norman Harden

  • Cognitive factors influence outcome following multidisciplinary chronic pain treatment: a replication and extension of a cross-lagged panel analysis.

    J. W. Burns;B. Glenn;S. Bruehl;Robert N Harden

  • Anger and pain sensitivity in chronic low back pain patients and pain-free controls: the role of endogenous opioids.

    Stephen Bruehl;John W Burns;Ok Yung Chung;Pamela Ward

  • Anger management style, hostility and spouse responses: gender differences in predictors of adjustment among chronic pain patients

    John W. Burns;Barbara J. Johnson;Neil Mahoney;James Devine

  • Anger inhibition and pain: conceptualizations, evidence and new directions

    John W. Burns;Phillip J. Quartana;Stephen Bruehl

  • Painful consequences of anger suppression

    Phillip J. Quartana;John W. Burns

  • Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects

    James I. Gerhart;John W. Burns;Kristina M. Post;David A. Smith

  • Randomized trial of group cognitive behavioral therapy compared with a pain education control for low-literacy rural people with chronic pain.

    Beverly E. Thorn;Melissa A. Day;John Burns;Melissa C. Kuhajda

  • Pain Psychology: A Global Needs Assessment and National Call to Action.

    Beth D. Darnall;Judith Scheman;Sara Davin;John W. Burns

  • Anger management style and the prediction of treatment outcome among male and female chronic pain patients

    John W. Burns;Barbara J. Johnson;James Devine;Neil Mahoney

  • Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress may enhance subsequent pain sensitivity

    Cynthia Caceres;John W Burns

  • Cognitive and physical capacity process variables predict long-term outcome after treatment of chronic pain.

    John W. Burns;Barbara J. Johnson;Neil Mahoney;James Devine

  • Is reduction in pain catastrophizing a therapeutic mechanism specific to cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain?

    John W Burns;Melissa A Day;Beverly E Thorn

  • Pain anxiety among chronic pain patients: specific phobia or manifestation of anxiety sensitivity?

    Jordan Greenberg;John W Burns

  • Anger expression and pain: an overview of findings and possible mechanisms.

    Stephen Bruehl;Ok Y. Chung;John W. Burns

  • Arousal of negative emotions and symptom-specific reactivity in chronic low back pain patients.

    John W. Burns

  • Differential effects of expressive anger regulation on chronic pain intensity in CRPS and non-CRPS limb pain patients

    Stephen Bruehl;Ok Yung Chung;John W Burns

  • Pain-related effects of trait anger expression: neural substrates and the role of endogenous opioid mechanisms.

    Stephen Bruehl;John W. Burns;Ok Y. Chung;Melissa Chont

  • Catastrophizing and pain sensitivity among chronic pain patients: Moderating effects of sensory and affect focus

    Elizabeth S. Michael;John W. Burns

  • Validity of the pain anxiety symptoms scale (PASS): prediction of physical capacity variables.

    John W Burns;John T Mullen;Laura J Higdon;Ju Mei Wei

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura S. Porter
Laura S. Porter Duke University
Lance M. McCracken
Lance M. McCracken Uppsala University
Amos Zeichner
Amos Zeichner University of Georgia

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