Autonomic responses to pain in aging and dementia

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 583-589

  Plooij, Bart ^a   Swaab, Dick ^b   Scherder, Erik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aging; autonomic responses; dementia; pain assessment

Indexed keywords

AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 80053585297     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/RNS.2011.045     Document Type: Review

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