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Visceral pain and gender differences in pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

D. Menétrey
D. Menétrey
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM, Unité 161, 75014 Paris, [email protected] (D Menetrey)
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Abstract

My commentary on mcmahon addresses the fact that only peripheral data have been considered for explaining differential sensibility in somato- and viscerosensory systems. This fails to take it into account that central processing for visceral and somatic inputs is now known to depend on different functional pathways. My commentary on berkley points out that the hypothalamus-pituitary axis is more responsive to stress in females than in males.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 459
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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