RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PAIN THRESHOLD, SELF-REGULATION, EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING, AND AUTONOMIC ACTIVITY: A GENERAL INHIBITORY SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE

Chronic pain patients have poorer pain inhibition, self-regulatory ability, executive functioning and autonomic inhibition than those without pain, supporting the view that suppressing pain is mentally taxing. In the current study, an alternate explanation was proposed; namely, that pain inhibition,...

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Main Author: Boggero, Ian Andres
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2013
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/27
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=psychology_etds