Pain sensitivity is inversely related to regional grey matter density in the brain

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 566-573

  Emerson, Nichole M ^a   Zeidan, Fadel ^a   Lobanov, Oleg V ^a   Hadsel, Morten S ^a   Martucci, Katherine T ^a   Quevedo, Alexandre S ^a   Starr, Christopher J ^a   Nahman Averbuch, Hadas ^b   Weissman Fogel, Irit ^c   Granovsky, Yelena ^b,d   Yarnitsky, David ^b,d   Coghill, Robert C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Healthy individuals; Pain sensitivity; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER DENSITY; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MODEL; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREDICTION; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS; PAIN SENSITIVITY; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894261916     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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