How People Appraise a Heat Stimulus Affects How Their Autonomic Nervous Systems Respond To It, Study Finds | NCCIH

How People Appraise a Heat Stimulus Affects How Their Autonomic Nervous Systems Respond To It, Study Finds | NCCIH

How a person perceives and evaluates stimuli involving actual or prospective pain is an important component in the autonomic nervous system’s (ANS) response to such stimuli, according to a study conducted by researchers in the NCCIH Intramural Program. The study, conducted by researchers in the Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center, was published in the journal Pain.

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