Characterizing individual differences in heat-pain sensitivity

Pain

Volumn 119, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 65-74

  Nielsen, Christopher S ^a,b   Price, Donald D ^c   Vassend, Olav ^a   Stubhaug, Audun ^d   Harris, Jennifer R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experimental pain; Individual differences; Power function; Thermal; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TWINS;

EID: 28644434690     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.09.018     Document Type: Article

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