Self-regulation of brain activity in patients with postherpetic neuralgia: A double-blind randomized study using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Guan, Min ^a   Ma, Lijia ^a   Li, Li ^a   Yan, Bin ^b   Zhao, Lu ^c   Tong, Li ^b   Dou, Shewei ^a   Xia, Linjie ^a   Wang, Meiyun ^a   Shi, Dapeng ^a  

^a HENAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NATIONAL DIGITAL SWITCHING SYSTEM ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MODULATION; NEUROFEEDBACK; NOCICEPTION; NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REAL TIME FMRI; ROSTRAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; CINGULATE GYRUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; NEUROFEEDBACK; PAIN PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84927534748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123675     Document Type: Article

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