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A STRAIN GAUGE PAIN STIMULATOR
Author(s) -
Forgione Albert G.,
Barber Theodore X.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1971.tb00441.x
Subject(s) - psychology , strain gauge , stimulus (psychology) , stimulation , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , structural engineering , engineering
Focal pressure, applied to the skin over bone, is a method of evoking experimental pain of an “aching” nature in which actual receptor stimulation is closely related to the applied stimulus. Methodological faults in previous applications of this method are eliminated by a pain stimulator which utilizes a bonded strain gauge.