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Ann Meulders
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Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Kinesiology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Orthopedics
Neuroscience
Global Health
Public Health

Ann Meulders

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Summary

I am a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. My work concerns psychological mechanisms in the transition from acute to chronic pain. My research in the recent years focused on learning processes in pain-related fear and more recently in avoidance.
After obtaining my PhD in 2008 at the KU Leuven Center for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, I teamed up with Johan Vlaeyen and started working on the "Psychology of Pain and Disability (Odysseus) Research Program" as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, translating my fear conditioning expertise to the field of pain. I have been a FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KU Leuven (since 2013), a visiting research fellow at the University of South Australia (2012-2013, collaborating with Lorimer Moseley), and since 2017 I am appointed as a faculty member at Maastricht University.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management Psychiatry & Psychology

Past or current institution affiliations

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
University of Maastricht

Work details

Associate Professor

Maastricht University
May 2021
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Visiting Professor

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
October 2013
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

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  • Articles 5
December 20, 2023
Modulation of attention to pain by goal-directed action: a somatosensory evoked potentials approach
Eleana A. Pinto, Stefaan Van Damme, Diana M. Torta, Ann Meulders
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16544 PubMed 38144185
May 3, 2021
Assessing kinesthetic proprioceptive function of the upper limb: a novel dynamic movement reproduction task using a robotic arm
Kristof Vandael, Tasha R. Stanton, Ann Meulders
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11301 PubMed 33987004
November 19, 2020
Freeze-like responses to pain in humans and its modulation by social context
Kai Karos, Ann Meulders, Tine Leyssen, Johan W. Vlaeyen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10094 PubMed 33240593
June 23, 2020
Learning to predict pain: differences in people with persistent neck pain and pain-free controls
Daniel S. Harvie, Jeroen D. Weermeijer, Nick A. Olthof, Ann Meulders
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9345 PubMed 32612886
May 15, 2019
The effect of differential spatiotopic information on the acquisition and generalization of fear of movement-related pain
Ann Meulders, Johan W. Vlaeyen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6913 PubMed 31143542