The Thermal Grill Illusion of Pain: Characterizing Differences in Response across Body Sites

The simultaneous application of interlaced innocuous warm and cool stimuli (a thermal grill stimulus, TGS) can elicit sensations of burning heat (the Thermal Grill Illusion, TGI). The TGS is thought to alter the central interactions between somatosensory sub-modalities (i.e. cold-inhibition of pain)...

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Main Author: Brunello, Maria Eugenia
Other Authors: Dostrovsky, Jonathan O.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25439