Virtual needle pain stimuli activates cortical representation of emotions in normal volunteers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-12

  Ushida, Takahiro ^a,d   Ikemoto, Tatsunori ^a   Tanaka, Shigeki ^b   Shinozaki, Jun ^a,c   Taniguchi, Shinichirou ^a   Murata, Yoriko ^a   McLaughlin, Matthew ^a   Arai, Young Chang P ^d   Tamura, Yurie ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JIN AI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Emotions; fMRI; Pain; Virtual visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44649152245     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.085     Document Type: Article

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