Temporal summation of heat pain in humans: Evidence supporting thalamocortical modulation

Pain

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-102

  Tran, Tuan D ^a,b,c   Wang, Heng ^a,b   Tandon, Animesh ^a   Hernandez Garcia, Luis ^d   Casey, Kenneth L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Functional imaging; Heat pain; Human; Psychophysics; Temporal summation; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAT PAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 77953019741     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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