Prepulses reduce the pain of cutaneous electrical shocks

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-281

  Blumenthal, Terry D ^a,b   Burnett, Traverse T ^a,b   Swerdlow, Charles D ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Pain; Prepulse inhibition; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0035094394     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-200103000-00012     Document Type: Article

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