The brain processing of scratching

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1806-1811

  Yosipovitch, Gil ^a,b   Ishiuji, Yozo ^a   Patel, Tejesh S ^a   Hicks, Maria Isabel ^a   Oshiro, Yoshitetsu ^a   Kraft, Robert A ^a   Winnicki, Erica ^a   Coghill, Robert C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSULA; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCRATCHING; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 45349099268     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2008.3     Document Type: Article

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