Learned maintenance of pain: Muscle tension reduces central nervous system processing of painful stimulation in chronic and subchronic pain patients

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 755-764

  Knost, Bärbel ^b   Flor, Herta ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^b   Schugens, Markus M ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic pain; EMG; Muscle tension; Operant conditioning; Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

EID: 0032731866     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299971342     Document Type: Article

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