This Perspective reviews recent findings in placebo hypoalgesia and provides a conceptual account of how expectations and experience can lead to placebo hypoalgesia. In particular …
For over 30 years, scientists have been investigating the phenomenon of pain suppression upon exposure to unconditioned or conditioned stressful stimuli, commonly known as stress …
MM Behbehani - Progress in neurobiology, 1995 - Elsevier
The major functions of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG), including pain and analgesia, fear and anxiety, vocalization, lordosis and cardiovascular control are considered …
The mammalian central nervous system possesses well-defined networks that modulate nociceptive transmission. The most extensively studied are the networks that underlie …
Converging lines of evidence suggest that the pathophysiology of pain is mediated to a substantial degree via allostatic neuroadaptations in reward-and stress-related brain …
WD Willis Jr, RE Coggeshall - 2012 - books.google.com
The third edition of this monograph continues to have the goal of providing an overview of current thought about the spinal cord mechanisms that are responsible for sensory …
HL Fields, J Bry, I Hentall, G Zorman - Journal of Neuroscience, 1983 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons of the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) have been implicated in the modulation of nociceptive transmission. In order to further analyze their role in pain behavior, we studied …
Exercise-induced analgesia is a phenomenon discussed worldwide. This effect began to be investigated in the early 1970s in healthy individuals and rodents during and after an acute …
A Randich, W Maixner - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 1984 - Elsevier
A review of pharmacological, neuroanatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral data indicates that systems controlling cardiovascular function are closely coupled to systems …