Electrical stimulation of the cingulum bundle and surrounding cortical tissue reduces formalin-test pain in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 743, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 116-123

  Fuchs, Perry N ^a,b   Balinsky, Melissa ^a   Melzack, Ronald ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

antinociception; brain stimulation; chronic pain; limbic system; stimulation produced analgesia; tonic pain

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030451204     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01035-9     Document Type: Article

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