Cerebral activation in patients with somatoform pain disorder exposed to pain and stress: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 418-430

  Stoeter, P ^a   Bauermann, Th ^a   Nickel, R ^b   Corluka, L ^c   Gawehn, J ^a   Vucurevic, G ^a   Vossel, G ^c   Egle, U T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Psychosomatische Fachklinik Gengenbach GmbH Klinik Kinzigtal   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS;

EID: 34248218559     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.052     Document Type: Article

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