Decreasing pain tolerance outside of awareness

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 250-257

  Meerman, Esther E ^a   Verkuil, Bart ^a   Brosschot, Jos F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Cold pressor; Medically unexplained symptoms; Memory; Pain tolerance; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PAIN THRESHOLD; SEMANTICS; SENSATION; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951721606     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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