Enhanced Brain Responses to Pain-Related Words in Chronic Back Pain Patients and Their Modulation by Current Pain

Enhanced Brain Responses to Pain-Related Words in Chronic Back Pain Patients and Their Modulation by Current Pain

Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in healthy controls (HC) and pain-free migraine patients found activations to pain-related words in brain regions known to be activated while subjects experience pain. The aim of the present study was to identify neural activations induce...

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Main Authors: Alexander Ritter, Marcel Franz, Christian Puta, Caroline Dietrich, Wolfgang H. R. Miltner, Thomas Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
Series:Healthcare
Subjects:
chronic back pain
semantic processing
current pain
fMRI
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/4/3/54

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