Fear avoidance beliefs in back pain-free subjects are reflected by amygdala-cingulate responses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JULY, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Meier, Michael L ^a,b   Stämpfli, Phillipp ^b,c   Vrana, Andrea ^a   Humphreys, Barry K ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^c   Hotz Boendermaker, Sabina ^c  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Chronic low back pain; Fear avoidance; fMRI; Low back pain; pgACC; PPI analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEAR; FEAR AVOIDANCE BELIEF; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN RELATED FEAR; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TAMPA SCALE FOR KINESIOPHOBIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84938920294     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00424     Document Type: Article

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