Pain affects the lives of many individuals by creating physical, psychological, and economic burdens. A critical psychological factor negatively affected pain is one's ability to sustain attention. In order better understand effect on sustained attention we conducted three experiments utilizing psychomotor vigilance task, thought probes, pupillometry. Experiment 1, participants in acute exhibit...

Objectives: Researchers have focused their attention on balance in the elderly because there is a significant correlation between balance and fall. Therefore, it is very important to identify the factors that can affect elderly balance. The aim of this study was to investigate relation between sustained attention and balance in elderly. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in 20...