Ethnic differences in thermal pain responses

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 346-354

  Edwards, Robert R ^a   Fillingim, Roger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Pain sensitivity; Race; Thermal pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELF REPORT; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032967568     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199905000-00014     Document Type: Article

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