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Exploring relationships for visceral and somatic pain with autonomic control and personality.
Pain - 1 Aug 2009
Paine Peter, Kishor Jessin, Worthen Sian F, Gregory Lloyd J, Aziz Qasim
Abstract excerpt
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) integrates afferent and motor activity for homeostatic processes including pain. The aim of the study was to compare hitherto poorly characterised relations between brainstem autonomic control and personality in response to visceral and somatic pain. Eighteen healthy subjects (16 females, mean age 34) had recordings during rest and pain of heart rate (HR), cardiac vagal tone...
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