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In this study we address the problem of the repeatability of autonomic responses in the experimental setting. In healthy volunteers, we measured the heart rate (HR) response to pain anticipation and to pain elicited with galvanic stimulation. After evaluation of pain threshold (T), all subjects underwent the same experimental protocol, whereby a painful stimulus at 1.5T was delivered on the forehead...
Pain perception and autonomic responses to pain are known to be altered in dementia, although the mechanisms are poorly understood. We studied patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) whose cognitive status was assessed through the Mini Mental State Examination test and whose brain electrical activity was measured by means of quantitative electroencephalography. After assessment of both cognitive impairment...
Placebo-activated endogenous opioids act on pain mechanisms inducing analgesia, as well as on the respiratory centers inducing respiratory depression. Here, we show that placebo analgesia is accompanied by a reduced β-adrenergic activity of the heart. We measured heart rate during placebo-induced expectation of analgesia, both in the clinical and the laboratory setting. In the clinical setting, we...
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