Pain-related changes in the brain: Diagnostic and therapeutic potentials

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 629-637

  Saab, Carl Y ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Channelopathy; Neuroplasticity; Neurotechnology; Pain; Pharmacotherapy

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CHRONIC PAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OSCILLATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY THALAMUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMIC CHANNELOPATHY; THALAMOCORTICAL OSCILLATION; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; THALAMUS;

EID: 84866757478     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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