The role of consciousness in stress-induced analgesia
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Neural Transmission
- Vol. 52 (1-2), 55-60
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01253097
Abstract
Male rats received unavoidable footshock administered while either awake or under Halothane® anaesthesia. Tail-flick threshold was measured subsequently in awake rats. An elevation in pain threshold indicative of stress-induced analgesia (SIA) appeared in rats shocked while awake, but not in those shocked while anaesthetized. The findings suggest that conscious processes are necessary for the occurrence of SIA.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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