The Thermal Grill Illusion of Pain: Effects of Altering Placements of Warm and Cool Grill Elements

The simultaneous application of interlaced innocuous warm and cool stimuli can elicit sensations of burning heat (the Thermal Grill Illusion, TGI). The TGI is thought to reflect changes in the central interactions between somatosensory sub-modalities (i.e. cold-inhibition of pain). Previous studies...

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Main Author: Lam, Jason
Other Authors: Dostrovsky, Jonathan O.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32253