Sentences with phrase «while painful stimuli»

Perhaps we can summarize the difference between pleasure and pain thus — while painful stimuli demand our attention and thus inhibit supplemental phases, pleasurable stimuli are feelings which invite further complex feeling.

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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.

During the scan, each female participant received painful heat stimuli (at two different temperatures: moderate and high) while viewing pictures of her relationship partner or control images (a stranger or an object).