User:Anthonyhcole/Pain, sex and gender


 * Relatively limited support is provided to the hypothesis that healthy women have greater pain sensitivity than men in most experimental pain modalities.




 * Ecological validity of laboratory findings in healthy humans about the role of certain biopsychological factors on sex differences in pain perception needs to be assessed/improved.




 * Pain induces changes in the functional connectivity between the periaqueductal gray and the cingulate, and, in men more than women, connectivity changes to the amygdala.




 * Pain in men and women treated with patient-controlled epidural analgesia was almost equal; however, women showed lower total PCEA consumption that was influenced by BMI and vomiting.




 * Quantitative sensory testing in 7- and 14-year-olds based on a priori sample size calculations revealed higher pain sensitivity in 7-year-olds, but no sex-related differences and similar detection thresholds.