Fear avoidance and neuroimaging: falsification or just failure to confirm?

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¹ Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Room: 9M-316B, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8 Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Room: MP14-306, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8.

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Tim V Salomons et al. Pain. 2012 Mar.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.12.019. Epub 2012 Jan 13.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Room: 9M-316B, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8 Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Room: MP14-306, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8.

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Neural correlates of fear of movement in high and low fear-avoidant chronic low back pain patients: an event-related fMRI study.
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