{"id":1424,"date":"2014-01-23T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:48:34","slug":"do-you-suffer-from-tension-headaches-researchers-from-the-university-of-bath-want-to-hear-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2014\/01\/23\/do-you-suffer-from-tension-headaches-researchers-from-the-university-of-bath-want-to-hear-from-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you suffer from headaches? Researchers from the University of Bath want to hear from you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researchers at the University of Bath are looking             for volunteers who  suffer from             headaches to help them understand how  pain affects their             attention, memory, and              ability to think clearly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1428\" src=\"http:\/\/bathblogs.wpengine.com\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_1425598181-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_142559818\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_1425598181-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_1425598181-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Scientists from          the Centre for Pain Research have already studied how adults reacted in           laboratory            conditions to pain while they were carrying out particular            tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The research,           which was published in <em>The Quarterly             Journal of Experimental Psychology<\/em>,  showed that the           sensation of           pain can reduce your  memory capacity and make it more           difficult for people to            turn their attention from one thing to another, or to pay            attention to two           things at once.<\/p>\n<p>The  researchers           now want to run further research to explore  whether attention           is           impaired in the same way for  people experiencing naturally           occurring pain in           the  course of their every-day lives, for example when they           have a           headache.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wanting           to find out more or to volunteer for the study should ring           01225 384225, email <a href=\"mailto:headache-study@bath.ac.uk\">headache-study@bath.ac.uk<\/a> or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/news\/2014\/01\/22\/headache-study\/\">http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/news\/2014\/01\/22\/headache-study\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Bath are looking for volunteers who suffer from headaches to help them understand how pain affects their attention, memory, and ability to think clearly. Scientists from the Centre for Pain Research have already studied how...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}