Subjective pain perception mediated by alpha rhythms

Biological Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 141-150

  Peng, Weiwei ^a   Babiloni, Claudio ^b,c   Mao, Yanhui ^b   Hu, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective motivational; Alpha rhythms; Cognitive modulative; Pain perception; Sensory discriminative

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTICIPATION; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INSULA; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NOCICEPTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; PAIN PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84930934113     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.05.004     Document Type: Review

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