Pain-related catastrophizing in healthy women is associated with greater temporal summation of and reduced habituation to thermal pain

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 730-737

  Edwards, Robert R ^a   Smith, Michael T ^a   Stonerock, Gregory ^b   Haythornthwaite, Jennifer A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Coping; Pain threshold; Temporal summation; Thermal pain; Windup

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATASTROPHIZING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC PAIN; COPING BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEAT; HUMANS; HYPERESTHESIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33748923309     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000210914.72794.bc     Document Type: Article

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