Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives

Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mitchell, Laura ^a   MacDonald, Raymond ^b  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive mechanism; Emotional mechanism; Induced pain; Music therapy; Pain relief

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882380591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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