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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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, 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...
Hybrid cognitive-behaviour therapy for individuals with insomnia and chronic pain: A pilot randomised controlled trialNicole K Y Tang
Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Primary Care Sciences, Keele University, UK Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK Electronic address
Behav Res Ther 50:814-21. 2012..Insomnia is a debilitating comorbidity of chronic pain. This pilot trial tested the utility of a hybrid treatment that simultaneously targets insomnia and pain-related interference...
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...
