Pain and its interaction with thalamocortical excitability states

Sleep and Pain

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 78-97

  Rye, David B ^a   Freeman, Amanda A H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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