Itch induced by a novel method leads to limbic deactivations - A functional MRI study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2347-2356

  Herde, Lina ^a   Forster, Clemens ^a   Strupf, Marion ^a   Handwerker, Hermann O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; HISTAMINE; LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRAIN; CODEINE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEAT; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRRITANTS; LIDOCAINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; OXYGEN; PAIN; PRURITUS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 35348819366     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00475.2007     Document Type: Article

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