Sentences with phrase «pain stimuli»

They have shown that mice that grow up without microbes (germ - free mice) were more sensitive to visceral pain stimuli.

Short pain stimuli are processed in sensory brain areas, whereas ongoing pain is processed in frontal brain areas which are related to emotional processes.

It signals high alert even when there's little pain stimulus.

During the second go - round, when the participants were instructed to meditate, they rated the exact same pain stimulus — a 120 - degree heat on their calves — as being 57 % less unpleasant and 40 % less intense, on average.

In fact, it may be detrimental due to the likelihood of the sub-sensory pain stimuli going off in the shoulder girdle, preventing some of the neurological signal from reaching the muscle.

Meditation - CBT intervention reduced pain severity and sensitivity to experimental thermal pain stimuli in patients with opioid - treated CLBP.

Here, mice that lack protein kinase C gamma (PKCγ) displayed normal responses to acute pain stimuli, but they almost completely failed to develop a neuropathic pain syndrome after partial sciatic nerve section, and the neurochemical changes that occurred in the spinal cord after nerve injury were blunted.

The authors reported that the pain, warmth detection, and heat pain stimuli likely activate nerve fibers more relevant to sexual pleasure than touch thresholds, which has been the focus of previous research.

The other test, called «conditioned pain modulation,» assessed the reduction (inhibition) of pain responses to competing pain stimuli.

The picture shows the EEG results during a short (left) and a long - lasting pain stimulus (right).

One test, called «temporal summation,» measured the production (facilitation) of pain responses to repeated pain stimuli.

Previous studies showed that brief pain stimuli are predominantly processed by sensory areas of the brain that process the signals from the sensory organs such as the skin.

«This brake is not always triggered by the painful stimuli; it's only triggered by the strong pain stimuli.

Another measure of clinical relevance which has emerged recently is the increased hypersensitivity to pain stimuli caused by sleep restriction in rats.

These findings are apparently not specific for visceral pain since studies applying somatic pain stimuli show similar results.

«Our results show how differently our brain processes the same pain stimuli.

Subtitle: Effects of negative emotions and stress on the neural processing of visceral pain stimuli: Current findings from imaging studies

Also, this limits the amount of growth of both your pecs and lats, due to the sub-sensory pain stimulus, as well as the actively insufficient pecs and passively insufficient lats (see above for definitions.)

But instead of tying the pain stimuli to blue or red cues, she used images of two similar - looking men.

Given that other genital sites (e.g., glans penis, midline shaft) were more sensitive to pain stimuli than the forearm, removing the highly innervated foreskin does not appear to remove the most sensitive part of the penis.

This method makes it possible to chronologically pinpoint which signals nerve cells use to respond to a pain stimulus.

The participants then rated verbally how strong they perceived the pain stimuli.

The scientists were further able to demonstrate how the brain implements this placebo effect: although the subjects were given the same pain stimuli, the nerve cells in the second run triggered a different pattern of brain activity.

A second experiment showed that it is not just the duration, but also the anticipation of a pain stimulus that affects perception.

Zautra AJ, Fasman R, Davis MC, Craig AD (2010) The effects of slow breathing on affective responses to pain stimuli: an experimental study.

Untreated pain can also lead to wind - up, where the nervous system becomes hypersensitive to pain stimuli.