Skin autonomic reactivity to thermoalgesic stimuli

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 349-355

  Schestatsky, Pedro ^a,b   Valls Solé, Josep ^b   Costa, João ^c   León, Lucia ^b   Veciana, Misericordia ^d   Chaves, Márcia L ^a,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^d Hospital de Sant Boi   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Pain; Psychophysics; Quantitative sensory testing; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CHI SQUARE TEST; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HAND; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMAL STIMULATION; TIME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 38549155608     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-007-0446-8     Document Type: Article

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