Temporal and qualitative properties of cold pain and heat pain: A psychophysical study

Pain

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-73

  Morin, C ^a   Bushnell, M C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold pain; Heat pain; Human; Psychophysics; Temperature; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLD; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031884824     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00152-8     Document Type: Article

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