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The pain of a heart being broken: pain experience and use of analgesics by caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

BACKGROUND: It has been observed that psychical suffering (e.g. the feeling of losing a significant person) tends to reduce the physical pain tolerance threshold, as well as to increase the subjective sense of painfulness. The purpose of this study was to assess pain sensation among a group of careg...

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Autores principales: Wojtyna, Ewa, Popiołek, Katarzyna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26215039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0571-1