Deficient pain modulatory systems in patients with mild traumatic brain and chronic post-traumatic headache: Implications for its mechanism

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 28-37

  Defrin, Ruth ^a   Riabinin, Miri ^a   Feingold, Yelena ^b   Schreiber, Shaul ^a   Pick, Chaim G ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

brain injury; pain adaptation; pain modulation; post traumatic headache

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONED PAIN MODULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOREARM; FOREHEAD; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEAT PAIN THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN INTENSITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD; SEX RATIO; SLEEP DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; YOUNG ADULT; ADAPTATION; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920092447     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3359     Document Type: Article

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