Processing of pain- and body-related verbal material in chronic pain patients: Central and peripheral correlates

Pain

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 413-421

  Flor, Herta ^a   Knost, Bärbel ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic back pain; Electroencephalogram; Electromyogram; Memory; Visual event related potentials; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; BODY IMAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031465634     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00137-1     Document Type: Article

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