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Age-Dependent Decline of Endogenous Pain Control: Exploring the Effect of Expectation and Depression

Although chronic pain affects all age ranges, it is particularly common in the elderly. One potential explanation for the high prevalence of chronic pain in the older population is impaired functioning of the descending pain inhibitory system which can be studied in humans using conditioned pain mod...

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Autores principales: Grashorn, Wiebke, Sprenger, Christian, Forkmann, Katarina, Wrobel, Nathalie, Bingel, Ulrike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075629