Adaptation to warming but not cooling at slow rates of stimulus change in thermal threshold measurements

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 45-48

  Harding, Louise M ^a   Loescher, Alison R ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Man; Psychophysics; QST; Thermal; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; WARMING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 21244441206     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220500084784     Document Type: Article

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