Pain sensitivity during chronic psychoemotional stress in humans

Ashkinazi, I.I.; Vershinina, E.A.

Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova 84(4): 337-342

1998


ISSN/ISBN: 0869-8139
PMID: 9742612
Document Number: 488662
In a natural "model" of a chronic psychoemotional stress in humans, (neurasthenia) a decrease in the nociceptive threshold was found. The decrease resulting from weakening of supraspinal tonic descending inhibition which, in its turn, evidently was due to a diminished activity (or dysfunction) of the brain opioid system occurring in a long-lasting psychoemotional stress.

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