… in healthy women, we compared behavioral and neural responses to acute visceral and
somatic pain, … with respect to perceived pain intensity. We tested the hypotheses that (1) fear of …

… pain assessments from n = 47 healthy women who participated in a previously published
study on visceral … An additional n = 15 women were recruited to enlarge the sample size for the …

… of visceral pain mechanisms in humans due to the limitations associated with human
experimental studies. Furthermore, women have traditionally been avoided as subjects in pain …

… Background In order to elucidate placebo and nocebo effects in visceral pain, we analyzed
… pain perception, rectal pain thresholds, state anxiety and cortisol responses in healthy women…

… for women to suffer from visceral pain,1, 2 several lines of experimental research have
aimed to investigate sex differences in the context of visceral sensitivity, including visceral pain …

… pain control, mediated by prefrontal regions, for possible sex differences in visceral pain
processing in healthy … studies on visceral pain processing in healthy men and women. Kern et al…

… Brain imaging studies of visceral pain in relatively large cohorts of male and female healthy
… understanding of how women perceive, report, and respond to visceral pain compared with …

… Our internal or visceral organs undertake a variety of physiological … pain arising from other
regions of the body, visceral pain alerts us of potential or actual tissue damage. Visceral pain …

… visceral pain conditions purely as a direct extrapolation of what we know about somatic pain.
… Because functional abdominal pain conditions are highly prevalent in women, it has been …

… pain. In a fear conditioning model with rectal pain as unconditioned stimulus (US), we
compared healthy males and females with respect to neural responses during aversive visceral …