Chantal Berna

ORCID: 0000-0001-8258-7412 · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2026
A prospective diary study of chronic pain-related intrusive mental imagery: "trolls climbing up my spine with ice axes" and other vivid images
Pain ·doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000004009

People with chronic pain can experience intrusive mental images (IMI) related to pain, that is, cognitions in the form of sensory-like experiences without actual sensory input. Previous retrospective studies suggested that such images are p…

2015
Factors Other Than Pain Intensity Predict Reduced Quality of Life in Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain
other 2011
Presence of mental imagery associated with chronic pelvic pain: a pilot study
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) ·doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01152.x

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether a small sample of patients with chronic pelvic pain experienced any pain-related cognitions in the form of mental images. PATIENTS: Ten women with chronic pelvic pain consecutively referred from a tertiary r…