Pain perception in chronic pain patients : a signal detection analysis

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the supposition that chronic pain patients (CPPs) have altered pain perception. Two models were examined that led to opposing predictions as to how CPPs would respond to painful stimuli (i.e., the hypervigilance and adaptation-level models). Both pred...

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Main Author: Mahon, Mary L.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31127