Noxious and innocuous cold discrimination in humans: Evidence for separate afferent channels

Pain

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-43

  Chen, Chao Chen ^a   Rainville, Pierre ^a   Bushnell, M Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold; Cool; Pain; Psychophysics; Temperature; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; COLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030275402     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03180-6     Document Type: Article

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