Different brain circuitries mediating controllable and uncontrollable pain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 5013-5025

  Bräscher, Anne Kathrin ^a,b   Becker, Susanne ^a,c   Hoeppli, Marie Eve ^a,e   Schweinhardt, Petra ^a,d,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controllability; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC); Insula; Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC); Pain; Pain modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCUIT; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL SCALE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS; TEMPERATURE; THALAMUS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THERMOSENSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84965008558     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1954-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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