Effects of motor cortex modulation and descending inhibitory systems on pain thresholds in healthy subjects

Journal of Pain

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 450-458

  Reidler, Jay S ^a   Mendonca, Mariana E ^a   Santana, Marcus B ^a   Wang, Xiaoen ^b   Lenkinski, Robert ^b   Motta, Andrea F ^c,d   Marchand, Serge ^c   Latif, Lydia ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^a,b  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; conditioned pain modulation; descending noxious inhibitory controls; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; tDCS; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE NOXIOUS INHIBITORY CONTROL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN THRESHOLD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPARTIC ACID; COLD TEMPERATURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860659346     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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