The effects of anger and sadness on clinical pain reports and experimentally-induced pain thresholds in women with and without fibromyalgia

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1370-1376

  Van Middendorp, Henriët ^a   Lumley, Mark A ^b   Jacobs, Johannes W G ^c   Bijlsma, Johannes W J ^c   Geenen, Rinie ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; RISK FACTOR; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957677558     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20230     Document Type: Article

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