Correlations between EEG and clinical outcome in chronic neuropathic pain: Surgical effects and treatment resistance

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-348

  Michels, Lars ^a   Moazami Goudarzi, Morteza ^a,b   Jeanmonod, Daniel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central lateral thalamotomy; EEG; Frustration; LORETA; Neuropathic pain; Treatment resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOTOMY;

AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80355146893     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-011-9135-2     Document Type: Article

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