Structural Brain Changes in Chronic Pain Reflect Probably Neither Damage Nor Atrophy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rodriguez Raecke, Rea ^a   Niemeier, Andreas ^a   Ihle, Kristin ^a   Ruether, Wolfgang ^a   May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OPERCULUM (BRAIN); ORBITAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES;

ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84873561243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054475     Document Type: Article

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