What does it mean to call chronic pain a brain disease?

Journal of Pain

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 317-322

  Sullivan, Mark D ^a   Cahana, Alex ^b   Derbyshire, Stuart ^c   Loeser, John D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canguilhem; Hacker; Mereological fallacy; Neuroimaging; Pathology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DISABILITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; TISSUE STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS;

EID: 84881660924     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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