Charles‐Édouard Giguère

Conditioned Pain Modulation and Pleasant Pain Relief as Complementary Processes Reflecting Individual Differences in Pain Coping: A Clustering Approach

BACKGROUND: Pain perception is the result of different modulatory mechanisms. Inhibition, via descending brainstem mechanisms, is key to pain reduction and is typically elicited by the cold pressor test (CPT). Recently, a compensatory hedonic response has been observed after CPT...