Taking sides with pain - lateralization aspects related to cerebral processing of dental pain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Brügger, Mike ^a   Ettlin, Dominik A ^a   Meier, Michael ^a   Keller, Thierry ^b   Luechinger, Roger ^b   Barlow, Ashley ^c   Palla, Sandro ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a   Lutz, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebral; Cerebral cortex; Dominance; Fmri; Lateralization; Toothache

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANINE TOOTH; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCISOR; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOOTH PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 82955235645     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00012     Document Type: Article

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