Relationship between thresholds to thermally and to mechanically induced pain in patients with eating disorders and healthy subjects

Pain

Volumn 67, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 511-512

  De Zwaan, Martina ^a   Biener, Dagmar ^a   Schneider, Christa ^a   Stacher, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; threshold to mechanically induced pain; threshold to thermally induced pain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0030273251     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03143-0     Document Type: Article

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