Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNICs): psychophysical evidence in man for intersegmental suppression of noxious heat perception by cold pressor pain

Pain

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 221-232

  Talbot, Jeanne D ^a   Duncan, Gary H ^a   Catherine Bushnell, M ^a   Boyer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold pressor pain; Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls; Heat perception; Suppression

Indexed keywords

COLD; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COLD; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN; PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023608335     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(87)91078-5     Document Type: Article

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