The importance of stimulus configuration for temporal summation of first and second pain to repeated heat stimuli

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-341

  Nielsen, Jesper ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTROMETHORPHAN; KETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032440243     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-3801(98)90031-3     Document Type: Article

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