Extensive reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in chronic back pain patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-8

  Flor, Herta ^a   Braun, Christoph ^b   Elbert, Thomas ^c   Birbaumer, Niels ^c,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

back pain; chronicity; cortical reorganization; magnetoencephalography; plasticity; source localization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0031041443     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13441-3     Document Type: Article

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