Touch or pain? Spatio-temporal patterns of cortical fMRI activity following brief mechanical stimuli

Pain

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 362-374

  Lui, F ^a   Duzzi, D ^a   Corradini, M ^a   Serafini, M ^b   Baraldi, P ^a   Porro, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b ASL Modena   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; pain; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 38549100396     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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