Heat pain threshold and tolerance show no left-right perceptual differences at complementary sites of the human forearm

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 440, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-313

  Schaffner, Nils ^a   Wittwer, Amrei ^a   Kut, Elvan ^a   Folkers, Gerd ^a   Benninger, David H ^b   Candia, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat pain perception; Homologous skin site; Human forearm; Laterality; Pain threshold; Pain tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 45849110641     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.084     Document Type: Article

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