The effects of palatable ingesta on the perception of thermally- and mechanically-induced experimental pain

• Main Author: Mercer, Michele E.
• Other Authors: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Psychology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Analgesia; Analgesics; Pain > Physiological aspects; Perception; Blass; Fitzgerald; Newfoundland studies; University of Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/theses3/id/22408

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995. Psychology Bibliography: leaves 131-161 Previous studies with animals and human infants have found that the ingestion of palatable sweet solutions produces a morphine-like analgesia (e.g., Blass, 1986; Blass & Hoffmeyer, 1991). This &quo...