Mental imagery-induced attention modulates pain perception and cortical excitability

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Volz, Magdalena Sarah ^a,b   Suarez Contreras, Vanessa ^a   Portilla, Andrea Santos L ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical excitability; Mental imagery; Pain; Pain catastrophizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL IMAGERY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD; PURDUE PEGBOARD TEST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN CORTEX; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926306582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12868-015-0146-6     Document Type: Article

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