Anger and pain sensitivity in chronic low back pain patients and pain-free controls: The role of endogenous opioids

Pain

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 223-233

  Bruehl, Stephen ^a   Burns, John W ^b   Chung, Ok Yung ^a   Ward, Pamela ^a   Johnson, Benjamin ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Chicago Medical College   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pain stimulation; Anger in; Anger out; Endogenous opioids; Trait anger

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANGER; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FINGERS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NOCICEPTORS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLACEBOS; PRESSURE;

EID: 0036711481     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(02)00104-5     Document Type: Article

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