Insights gained into pain processing from patients with focal brain lesions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 520, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 188-191

  Garcia Larrea, Luis ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Dissociated sensory loss; Evoked potentials; Functional imaging; Insula; Lesion; Pain

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOCAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OPERCULO INSULAR PAIN; OPERCULUM (BRAIN); PAIN; PARALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POST STROKE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY DEFICIT; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS SYNDROME; THERMAL STIMULATION; THIRD SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; STROKE; THALAMIC DISEASES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84862311020     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.05.007     Document Type: Review

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