Imaging central pain syndromes

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-189

  Veldhuijzen, Dieuwke S ^b   Greenspan, Joel D ^b   Kim, Jong H ^b   Coghill, Robert C ^b   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^b   Ohara, Shinji ^b   Lenz, Frederick A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BACLOFEN; INOSITOL; KETAMINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROPOFOL;

ALLODYNIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; THERMAL STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 34249790898     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0189-1     Document Type: Review

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