Pain Threshold - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Both happy and sad melodies modulate tonic human heat pain.

30 Aug 2009 The mechanism of music effects on pain perception remains to be elucidated. To determine which component (mood or valence) of music is more important in music-induced hypoalgesia, we compared the effects of 2 melodies with different moods (happy vs ... Read more...

Laterality of pain: modulation by placebo and participants' paranormal belief.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of placebo and paranormal belief on the laterality of pain perception. BACKGROUND: The right hemisphere is dominantly involved in both the mediation of pain sensation and the belief in paranormal phenomena. We ... Read more...

Gender role expectations of pain is associated with pain tolerance limit but not with pain threshold.

14 Jul 2009 Gender role expectations of pain (GREP) was suggested to predict sex differences in pain perception. Our aim was to explore sex differences in GREP and investigate its relationship with heat-pain threshold (HPT) and heat-pain tolerance limit (HPTL). ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain Threshold - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Both happy and sad melodies modulate tonic human heat pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Laterality of pain: modulation by placebo and participants' paranormal belief. 30 Aug 2009
• Gender role expectations of pain is associated with pain tolerance limit but not with pain threshold. 14 Jul 2009
• Pain language and gender differences when describing a past pain event. 5 Jul 2009
• Visualization of chemokine receptor activation in transgenic mice reveals peripheral activation of CCR2 receptors in states of neuropathic pain. 22 Jun 2009
• Effect of mental stress on cold pain in chronic tension-type headache sufferers. 3 Jun 2009
• Prospective judgments of acceptable outcomes for pain, interference and activity: Patient-determined outcome criteria. 13 May 2009
• Pathophysiology of migraine. 29 Apr 2009
• Exploring relationships for visceral and somatic pain with autonomic control and personality. 21 Apr 2009
• Enhanced presurgical pain temporal summation response predicts post-thoracotomy pain intensity during the acute postoperative phase. 21 Apr 2009
• Effect of stress on pain perception in young women. 30 Mar 2009
• Acceptance, mindfulness, and values-based action may counteract fear and avoidance of emotions in chronic pain: an analysis of anxiety sensitivity. 30 Mar 2009
• Pain and aging: the emergence of a new subfield of pain research. 30 Mar 2009
• Joint distraction magnitude is associated with different behavioral outcomes and substance P levels for cervical facet joint loading in the rat. 30 Mar 2009
• Attentional biases in chronic pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis: hypervigilance or difficulties disengaging? 27 Feb 2009
• Contribution of the periaqueductal gray to the suppression of pain affect produced by administration of morphine into the intralaminar thalamus of rat. 21 Feb 2009
• Sustained efficacy of virtual reality distraction. 21 Feb 2009
• An NK1 receptor antagonist microinjected into the periaqueductal gray blocks lateral hypothalamic-induced antinociception in rats. 5 Feb 2009
• Hypervigilance as predictor of postoperative acute pain: its predictive potency compared with experimental pain sensitivity, cortisol reactivity, and affective state. 30 Jan 2009
• Alexithymia in fibromyalgia syndrome: associations with ongoing pain, experimental pain sensitivity and illness behavior. 14 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Pain Threshold'

Definition: Amount of stimulation required before the sensation of pain is experienced.

Descriptor UI: D017288

Alternative terms: Pain Threshold; Pain Thresholds; Threshold, Pain; Thresholds, Pain;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.593.710.560; F02.830.816.444.700; G11.561.600.810.444.700;

History Note: 93