Brain activity in rectosigmoid pain: Unravelling conditioning pain modulatory pathways

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 829-837

  Brock, Christina ^a   Olesen, Søren Schou ^a   Valeriani, Massimiliano ^b,c   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^c   Drewes, Asbjørn Mohr ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CPM; Descending pain control; DNIC; Evoked potentials; Neurophysiology; Psychophysical; Source modelling; Top down pain matrix; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONDITIONING PAIN MODULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECTOSIGMOID PAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COLD TEMPERATURE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 84857790962     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.07.047     Document Type: Article

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