What is the nature and function of relief? Relief has been studied little in psychological science despite its familiarity and pervasiveness. Two studies revealed that relief can result from two distinct situations: the narrow avoidance of an aversive outcome (near-miss relief) and completion of an onerous or aversive event (task-completion relief). Study 1 found that recollections of near-miss...

Shadow analysis of soil surface roughness compared to the chain set method and direct measurement of micro-relief R. Garcı́a Moreno, M. C. Dı́az Álvarez, A. M. Tarquis, A. Paz González, and A. Saa Requejo Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Coruña-UDC, Spain CEIGRAM (Centre for Studies and Research on Agricultural and Environmental Risk Management), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Re...

A pathophysiological chain reaction at the origin of neurogenic pain. It consists of: 1) a reduction of excitatory inputs onto thalamic cells, which results in cell membrane hyperpolarization, 2) the production of low-threshold calcium spike bursts by deinactivation of calcium T-channels, discharging at low (theta) frequency, 3) a progressive increase of the number of thalamocortical modules di...