Personality and pain: Back to the four humours?

Pain

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-224

  Tillisch, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Personality; Somatic pain; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NEUROSIS; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS TONE; VISCERAL PAIN;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 67649470438     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.04.019     Document Type: Editorial

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