Sex hormones and pain: The evidence from functional imaging

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 396-403

  Vincent, Katy ^a,b   Tracey, Irene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Pain; PET; Positron emission tomography; Sex steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; CARFENTANIL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETONOGESTREL; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

COGNITION; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAIN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957116433     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0139-1     Document Type: Review

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