Brain imaging of clinical pain states: a critical review and strategies for future studies

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1033-1044

  Kupers, Ron ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CARFENTANIL C 11; DIPRENORPHINE C 11; OPIATE RECEPTOR; RACLOPRIDE C 11; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHRONIC PAIN; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG BINDING; DRUG UPTAKE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN; PERSONALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33750703943     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70624-X     Document Type: Review

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