Acute psychosocial stress reduces pain modulation capabilities in healthy men

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2418-2425

  Geva, Nirit ^a   Pruessner, Jens ^b   Defrin, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Conditioned pain modulation; Pain perception; Pain tolerance

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONDITIONED PAIN MODULATION; CONDITIONING; HEAT PAIN INTOLERANCE; HEAT PAIN THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MONTREAL IMAGING STRESS TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; STRESS ASSESMENT; TEMPORAL SUMMATION OF PAIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HYPERALGESIA; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923641268     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.023     Document Type: Article

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