The role of operant conditioning in chronic pain: An experimental investigation

Pain

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 111-118

  Flor, Herta ^a   Knost, Bärbel ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromyogram; Evoked potentials; Learning; Operant factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036149127     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(01)00385-2     Document Type: Article

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