Shape shifting pain: Chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2751-2768

  Hashmi, Javeria A ^a   Baliki, Marwan N ^a   Huang, Lejian ^a   Baria, Alex T ^a   Torbey, Souraya ^a   Hermann, Kristina M ^a   Schnitzer, Thomas J ^a   Apkarian, A Vania ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic back pain; emotion; fMRI; longitudinal; reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

EID: 84883329129     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt211     Document Type: Article

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