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Is there a sex difference in the balance of pain excitatory and pain inhibitory processes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Stefan Lautenbacher
Stefan Lautenbacher
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, 35037 Marburg, Germanylautenba@post.med.uni-marburg.de
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Abstract

According to berkley's review, women have a higher risk of suffering from pain than men. If this is true, there should be more frequent and more intense activity both in the pain excitatory system and in the pain inhibitory system of women than of men. Consequently, it remains unclear whether the overall effect at the end is more pain or less pain in women. This conclusion fits the weak sex differences observed for experimental and clinical pain as shown by berkley's review of the literature.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 456 - 457
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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