Common neural systems for contact heat and laser pain stimulation reveal higher-level pain processing

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1080-1091

  Helmchen, Christoph ^a,c   Mohr, Christian ^a   Roehl, Meike ^a   Bingel, U ^b   Lorenz, Juergen ^b   Büchel, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact heat; fMRI; Higher level processing; Pain; Radiant heat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YAG LASER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 51449099587     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20447     Document Type: Article

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