Neurophysiological techniques for the evaluation of pain in humans have made important
advances in the last decade. A number of features of neuroanatomy and physiology of …

Quantitative sensory testing has become commonplace in clinical neurophysiology units.
Measurement of the thermal and vibratory senses provides an estimate on function of …

Fillingim and Maixner (Fillingim, RB and Maixner, W., Pain Forum, 4 (4)(1995) 209–221)
recently reviewed the body of literature examining possible sex differences in responses to …

Many clinical pain conditions, including migraine, fibromyalgia, and temporomandibular
disorders, occur more frequently among females than males. Greater pain sensitivity among …

Firmly established as the leading international reference in this field, Non-Invasive Methods
and the Skin broke new ground with its comprehensive coverage of methods used in both …

We recorded evoked potentials (EPs) induced by conventional transcutaneous electrical
stimulation (TS), laser stimulation (LS) and epidermal electrical stimulation (ES) using a …

Animal experiments have shown that the nociceptive reflex can be used as an indicator of
central temporal integration in the nociceptive system. The aim of the present study on …

This study compared pain perception in young male and female subjects, using
experimental noxious heat stimuli. During 2 sessions, each of 40 subjects rated the …

Gender differences in experimental pain sensitivity have been widely investigated, and the
results generally indicate that females exhibit greater sensitivity to noxious stimuli than …

This review presents and discusses the leading arguments justifying the use of high power
laser stimulators to explore the nociceptive system. To grasp the particularity of such …