Gender and laterality differences in thermosensation throughout the perceptible range
- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 106 (1) , 9-18
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(03)00211-2
Abstract
Several studies suggest that females exhibit greater sensitivity to experimentally induced thermal pain than males. These investigations have focused mainly on the sensory-discriminative rather than the affective aspect of pain. Moreover, potential gender differences for the affective componKeywords
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