Emotion and Memory in Chronic Neuropathic Pain

"* Pain questionnaires such as Numerical Pain Rating Scale is one of the most widely used multidimensional pain scales to assesses a person's pain based on the words they use to describe their pain.~* Battery of Cognitive questionnaires = The cognitive test battery was designed to assess key cognitive abilities including attention, concentration, verbal learning and memory, verbal fluency, working memory and executive function as well as global cognitive functioning and fear and anxiety~* Mnemonic Simulation Test and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test are the neuropsychological assessments designed to evaluate recognition and verbal memory, respectively. Both tasks have been shown to be very sensitive to hippocampal engagement and damage.~* Memory-recall interview is an interview for the interviewees to recall the event from different perspectives, such as from the preadmission date, 2-week post- and 6-month post-surgical date. This supports the memory retrieval process."

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a noninvasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of almost every internal structure in the human body, including the organs, bones, muscles and blood vessels. MRI scanners create images of the body using a large magnet and radio waves.