Phantom Limb Pain: Aspects of Neuroplasticity and Intervention;Phantomschmerz: Aspekte der Neuroplastizität und Intervention

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 762-766

  Grusser S M ^a   Diers, M ^b   Flor, Herta ^b  

^a Inst fur Medizinische Psychologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Pain memory; Phantom pain; Plasticity; Reorganization

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; AMPUTATION; CHRONIC PAIN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PHANTOM PAIN; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PHANTOM LIMB; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0346964476     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-45403     Document Type: Review

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