Chronic pain: The role of learning and brain plasticity

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-139

  Mansour, A R ^a   Farmer, M A ^a   Baliki, M N ^a   Apkarian, A Vania ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONICITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPLICIT MEMORY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAIN RECEPTOR; PHANTOM PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL ILLUSION; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84892835304     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-139003     Document Type: Article

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