Sentences with phrase «painful stimuli as»

[176] I accept the opinions of Dr. Purtzki that the plaintiff has evidence of allodynia and hyperalgesia and seems to experience non-painful stimuli as painful and mildly painful stimuli as more painful, as a generalization to the area of pain.

QST uses brief computer - applied painful stimuli as well as sophisticated manually - applied pain sensitivity testing (such as heat, cold, pressure and pinprick) to assess how the nervous system responds to painful stimuli.

Not exact matches

Uhl and crew then produced mice that had half the normal number of opiate receptors and as a result, experienced greater discomfort when exposed to a standard mildly painful stimulus.

As its temperature varied from pleasant (near body temperature) to painful (49 degrees Celsius), subjects had to rate both pain intensity and pain unpleasantness of the noxious stimulus.

Just as those emergency pagers interpreted static as an emergency and let loose a blood - curdling squawk, nerves that carry pain assume that static represents a painful stimulus, and that's what they tell the brain.

A typically non-painful stimulus, such as light touch, may be perceived as painful.

You (the lab rat) are placed in a Skinner box (the movie theater) and subjected to random negative stimuli (filmed violence, as a substitute for painful electrical jolts).

While there is at this time no clear explanation for chronic pain, recent work on the nervous system suggests that it may result from pathological changes in the nervous mechanisms that result in pain continuing and non-painful stimuli being perceived as painful.