Acupuncture - Deep pain with an autonomic dimension?

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 653-660

  Beissner, Florian ^a,b,c   Deichmann, Ralf ^b   Henke, Christian ^c   Bär, Karl Jürgen ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Autonomic nervous system; Brainstem; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Pain

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEEDLING SENSATION; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIGENUAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; SENSATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84856104359     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.045     Document Type: Article

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