Episode 7 - One Thing with Ann Meulders

Join Ann Meulders discussing what she wants people challenged by pain to know about. Explore the current state of pain science research and clinical practice in this straight-to-the-point interview with Ann Meulders.

Ann Meulders is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven (Belgium). Dr Meulders obtained her PhD in 2008 at the Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology at KU Leuven. In 2009, she joined the Health Psychology lab at KU Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2012, she did a research visit at the Body in Mind Research Group at UniSA (Australia). She was awarded the prestigious EFIC Grünenthal Grant (2012), and more recently a competitive NWO Innovational Research Grant (Vidi scheme –10% success rate; 2016). Dr. Meulders published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and 5 book chapters. Her work concerns psychological mechanisms in the transition from acute to chronic pain. Her research focused on learning processes in pain-related fear and avoidance. Her research profile is here: https://ppw.kuleuven.be/ogp/staffpagina/00042280

Ann encouraged viewers of this video to look into the following resources:

Meulders, A. (2019). From fear of movement-related pain and avoidance to chronic pain disability: A state of the art review [invited review]. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 26,130-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.12.007

Meulders, A. (in press). Fear in the context of pain: Lessons learned from 100 years of fear conditioning research. Behaviour Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103635

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