FMRI reveals abnormal central processing of sensory and pain stimuli in ill Gulf War veterans

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 261-271

  Gopinath, Kaundinya ^a,c   Gandhi, Parina ^a   Goyal, Aman ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a   Fang, Yan ^a   Ouyang, Luo ^a   Ganji, Sandeepkumar ^a   Buhner, David ^a   Ringe, Wendy ^b   Spence, Jeffrey ^b   Biggs, Melanie ^b   Briggs, Richard ^a   Haley, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain diseases; Functional MRI; Gulf War illness; Innocuous heat; Neuroimaging; Noxious heat; Pain; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAT SENSATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VETERAN;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FIBROMYALGIA; GULF WAR; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSATION DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; THERMOSENSING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84858715167     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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