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| Nicole K Y TangSummaryAffiliation: King's College London Country: UK Publications
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Sleeping with the enemy: clock monitoring in the maintenance of insomniaNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, DeCrespigny Park, London, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 38:40-55. 2007..Together, these findings suggest that clock monitoring may trigger pre-sleep worry and serve to maintain insomnia by fuelling pre-sleep worry and exacerbating misperception of sleep...
Chronic pain syndrome associated with health anxiety: a qualitative thematic comparison between pain patients with high and low health anxietyNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 48:1-20. 2009..This study aimed to provide qualitative data to complement the progress of the existing experimental research and theory development...
Effects of mood on pain responses and pain tolerance: an experimental study in chronic back pain patientsNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE58AF, UK
Pain 138:392-401. 2008..It is concluded that, in chronic back pain patients, experimentally induced negative mood increases self-reported pain and decreases tolerance for a pain-relevant task, with positive mood having the opposite effect...
Increased use of safety-seeking behaviors in chronic back pain patients with high health anxietyNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology PO 77, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:2821-35. 2007..Taken together, these findings suggest that SSB is distinct from overt pain behavior and may be a defining characteristic of chronic pain patients reporting high levels of health anxiety...
Mental defeat in chronic pain: initial exploration of the conceptNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
Clin J Pain 23:222-32. 2007..A measure of mental defeat was devised and evaluated in terms of (1) psychometric properties and (2) specificity of scores in relation to disabling chronic pain...
Prevalence and correlates of clinical insomnia co-occurring with chronic back painNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
J Sleep Res 16:85-95. 2007..Future research should consider investigating the role of pain appraisal and health anxiety in the development and manifestation of insomnia concomitant to chronic pain...
Brief CBT-I for insomnia comorbid with social phobia: A case studyNicole K Y Tang
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Behav Cogn Psychother 38:113-22. 2010..This case report aims to illustrate the possibility of rectifying sleep disturbances comorbid with social phobia, using a brief cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)...
Altering misperception of sleep in insomnia: behavioral experiment versus verbal feedbackNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, England
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:767-76. 2006..06 to 0.31). Further, the patients regarded the behavioral experiment as a more beneficial and acceptable intervention strategy than verbal feedback...
Suicidality in chronic pain: a review of the prevalence, risk factors and psychological linksNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Psychol Med 36:575-86. 2006..This paper reviews and integrates the growing literature concerning the prevalence of and risk factors for suicidality in chronic pain...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for sleep abnormalities of chronic pain patientsNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology PO 77, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE58AF, United Kingdom
Curr Rheumatol Rep 11:451-60. 2009..As both CBT approaches involve strengths and limitations, a hybrid form of treatment is needed that simultaneously addresses pain and sleep...
Mental defeat is linked to interference, distress and disability in chronic painNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Pain 149:547-54. 2010..These findings suggest that mental defeat may be an important mediator of distress and disability in chronic pain. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed...
Pain-related Insomnia Versus Primary Insomnia: A Comparison Study of Sleep Pattern, Psychological Characteristics, and Cognitive-behavioral ProcessesNicole K Y Tang
Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Primary Care Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London Pain Relief Unit, King s College Hospital, London Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Clin J Pain 28:428-36. 2012..The objectives of this study were to compare the characteristics of patients who have pain-related insomnia with those reporting primary insomnia and to identify psychological factors that predict pain-related insomnia...
Time estimation ability and distorted perception of sleep in insomniaNicole K Y Tang
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London
Behav Sleep Med 3:134-50. 2005..Future research is required to test the hypothesis that increased cognitive arousal (worry) and physiological arousal are candidate mechanisms that underpin sleep misperception...
Cognitive approaches to insomniaAllison G Harvey
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720 1650, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 25:593-611. 2005..These include beliefs, attributions, expectations, perception and attention. The treatment implications of this evidence are discussed, as are priorities for future research...
Attempts to control unwanted thoughts in the night: development of the thought control questionnaire-insomnia revised (TCQI-R)Melissa J Ree
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
Behav Res Ther 43:985-98. 2005..The strategy of cognitive distraction appeared to be helpful, with the use of this strategy predicting better sleep quality...
Barriers to treatment seeking in primary insomnia in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional perspectiveKathleen Stinson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sleep 29:1643-6. 2006....
Effects of cognitive arousal and physiological arousal on sleep perceptionNicole K Y Tang
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Sleep 27:69-78. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that both presleep cognitive arousal and presleep physiological arousal contribute to distorted perception of sleep...
Correcting distorted perception of sleep in insomnia: a novel behavioural experiment?Nicole K Y Tang
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
Behav Res Ther 42:27-39. 2004..The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed...
Cognitive behaviour therapy for primary insomnia: can we rest yet?Allison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Sleep Med Rev 7:237-62. 2003..Directions for future research are outlined including (1) guidelines for improved RCT methodology and (2) suggestions for developing empirically grounded treatments...
