Ventral periaqueductal grey stimulation alters heart rate variability in humans with chronic pain

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 574-581

  Pereira, Erlick A C ^a,b   Lu, Guohua ^a,b,c,e   Wang, Shouyan ^d   Schweder, Patrick M ^a,b   Hyam, Jonathan A ^a,b,c   Stein, John F ^c   Paterson, David J ^c   Aziz, Tipu Z ^a,b,c   Green, Alexander L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b The West Wing ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation (DBS); Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Heart rate variability (HRV); Pain; Periaqueductal grey (PAG)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77952547257     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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