Specific brain morphometric changes in spinal cord injury with and without neuropathic pain

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-35

  Mole, Tom B ^a   Maciver, Kate ^b   Sluming, Vanessa ^c   Ridgway, Gerard R ^d   Nurmikko, Turo J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Pain Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

10.020: Structural MRI; 40.100: Systems Pain; 40.130: Systems Somatosensory; 50.140: Pain syndromes Other; 50.160: Spinal cord; 50.180: Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VISUAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ATROPHY; COMPLICATION; NEURALGIA; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PAIN INTENSITY;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; ORGAN SIZE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84902458692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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