Brain activation during input from mechanoinsensitive versus polymodal C-nociceptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5492-5499

  Ruehle, Belinda Susanne ^a   Handwerker, Hermann Otto ^a   Lennerz, Jochen Klaus Maria ^a   Ringler, Ralf ^a   Forster, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Cortical; Electric stimulation; fMRI; Imaging; Nociception; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; TOUCH;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOVEMENT; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE NET; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TOUCH;

EID: 33744997435     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2059-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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