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is present, they let the researcher know. Once the pain is unbearable, the participant removes their hand. This provides a measure of threshold (first feeling pain) and tolerance (total time minus threshold). This method is the most frequently used application of the cold pressor task. Comparable
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excitability. Some research suggests that the outcome of the cold pressor test can help to predict hypertension in patients; however other studies have failed to confirm this.
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Harlan WR, Osborne RK, Graybiel A (May 1964). "Prognostic value of the cold pressor test and the basal blood pressure: Based on an eighteen-year follow-up study".
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Lowery D, Fillingim RB, Wright RA (March–April 2003). "Sex differences and incentive effects on perceptual and cardiovascular responses to cold pressor pain".
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Lafleche AB, Pannier BM, Laloux B, Safar ME (August 1998). "Arterial response during cold pressor test in borderline hypertension".
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Brown JL, Sheffield D, Leary MR, Robinson ME (March–April 2003). "Social support and experimental pain".
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699:Congenital insensitivity to pain
659:Paroxysmal extreme pain disorder
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49:. These changes relate to
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75:hot water immersion test
820:Posteromarginal nucleus
755:Measurement and testing
361:Psychosomatic Medicine
296:Psychosomatic Medicine
212:American Heart Journal
149:10.1161/01.HYP.6.3.301
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600:Arthralgia
582:Pleurodynia
577:Sore throat
79:confounding
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848:Anesthesia
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536:Eye strain
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89:Physiology
83:baroreflex
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884:Suffering
853:Cordotomy
843:Analgesia
664:Allodynia
644:Neuralgia
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