Understanding pain and posttraumatic stress disorder comorbidity: do pathological responses to trauma alter the perception of pain?

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¹ Department of Psychology and Anxiety and Illness Behaviour Laboratory, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 Department of Psychology and School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Editorial

Gordon J G Asmundson et al. Pain. 2008.

. 2008 Aug 31;138(2):247-249.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.06.020. Epub 2008 Aug 5.

¹ Department of Psychology and Anxiety and Illness Behaviour Laboratory, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 Department of Psychology and School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada.

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Quantitative testing of pain perception in subjects with PTSD--implications for the mechanism of the coexistence between PTSD and chronic pain.
Defrin R, Ginzburg K, Solomon Z, Polad E, Bloch M, Govezensky M, Schreiber S. Defrin R, et al. Pain. 2008 Aug 31;138(2):450-459. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.05.006. Epub 2008 Jun 27. Pain. 2008. PMID: 18585862

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