The contribution of the putamen to sensory aspects of pain: Insights from structural connectivity and brain lesions

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1987-2004

  Starr, Christopher J ^a   Sawaki, Lumy ^a   Wittenberg, George F ^a,b   Burdette, Jonathan H ^a   Oshiro, Yoshitetsu ^a   Quevedo, Alexandre S ^a   McHaffie, John G ^a   Coghill, Robert C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

basal ganglia; functional MRI; pain; selection; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUTAMEN; RATING SCALE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE THRESHOLD; THERMAL THRESHOLD;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PUTAMEN;

EID: 79959706313     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr117     Document Type: Article

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