WILLIAM MAIXNER

Biographic Data

ID8863522
NAMEWILLIAM MAIXNER
GIVEN NAMESWILLIAM
FAMILY NAMEMAIXNER
SIGNATUREMAIXNER W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX0

  • Tactile orientation constancy

    Open AccessAtsuki Higashiyama, MARK HOLLINS et al.ARTICLEJapanese Psychological Research2006

    Tactile vertical , defined as the edge orientation that participants perceive to be vertical, was examined in four experiments. In Experiment 1, we touched the participants’ cheek, lips, or hand with an edge and asked them to judge its orientation with regard to gravitational vertical, both when the stimulated body part was upright (or, in the case of the lips, aligned), and when it was tilted (lips, distorted). We found that when the head or han…

  • African Americans Show Alterations in Endogenous Pain Regulatory Mechanisms and Reduced Pain Tolerance to Experimental Pain Procedures

    Mary Beth Mechlin, WILLIAM MAIXNER et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2005

    OBJECTIVES: To examine ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and relationship of pain tolerance to blood pressure and neuroendocrine factors. METHODS: Fifty-one African Americans (24 men, 27 women) and 55 people from other ethnic groups (primarily Caucasian; 26 men, 29 women) were tested twice for pain sensitivity to tourniquet ischemia, thermal heat, and cold pressor tests, once following mental stress and once following rest control. Resting a…

  • Race and Sex Differences in Cutaneous Pain Perception

    David Sheffield, Paula L Biles et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2000

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine race and sex differences in cutaneous pain perception. METHODS: Pain perception was measured using a suprathreshold evaluation of pain intensity and pain unpleasantness to a series of thermal stimuli in 27 whites (14 men and 13 women) and 24 African Americans (12 men and 12 women). Blood pressure, depressive symptoms, anxiety state levels, and negative mood were assessed before pain testing to…

  • Neuroendocrine Factors in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

    Susan S Girdler, S Girdler et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1998

    Girdler, S.; Sherwood, A.; Hinderliter, A.; Stanwyck, C.; Pedersen, C.; Maixner, W.; Light, K. Author Information

  • Blood Pressure-Related Hypoalgesia in Bulimia Nervosa

    Susan S Girdler, Jeannie H Koo-Loeb et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1998

    OBJECTIVE: This study examined pain sensitivity and its relationship to arterial blood pressure in bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS: Fourteen women who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, criteria for BN, purging subtype, and 14 controls were tested for ischemic pain sensitivity after an extended baseline period. Blood pressure, cardiac output, stroke volume, and total peripheral resistance were assessed during ba…

  • Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity and Resting Arterial Blood Pressure in Patients With Painful Temporomandibular Disorders

    WILLIAM MAIXNER, Roger B Fillingim et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1997

    OBJECTIVE: Patients experiencing temporomandibular disorders (TMD) show greater sensitivity to painful stimuli than age- and gender-matched control subjects. This enhanced pain sensitivity may result, at least in part, from an alteration in pain regulatory systems that are influenced by resting arterial blood pressure. In this study, we examined the relationship between resting systolic blood pressure and pain perception in 64 female TMD and 23 a…

  • Ischemic but Not Thermal Pain Sensitivity Varies Across the Menstrual Cycle

    Roger B Fillingim, WILLIAM MAIXNER et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1997

    OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: Findings from both animal and human research suggest that pain sensitivity changes across the menstrual cycle; however, among humans the nature of these menstrual cycle effects remains unclear. The present study used a repeated-measures design to evaluate changes in thermal and ischemic pain responses during three phases of the menstrual cycle, midfollicular (postmenstrual), ovulatory, and mid-to-late luteal (premenstrual), …

  • The Influence of Resting Blood Pressure and Gender on Pain Responses

    Roger B Fillingim, WILLIAM MAIXNERARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1996

    Recent research suggests that resting blood pressure is inversely related to pain sensitivity, even among normotensives; however, most of these studies have included only male participants. To determine whether this hypoalgesic effect of blood pressure was also present in females, we investigated thermal and ischemic pain responses in a group of age-matched, normotensive females and males as a function of resting blood pressure. Thermal pain thre…