Pain imaging in health and disease — how far have we come?
Open Access
- 1 November 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 120 (11), 3788-3797
- https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI43498
Abstract
Since modern brain imaging of pain began 20 years ago, networks in the brain related to pain processing and those related to different types of pain modulation, including placebo, have been identified. Functional and anatomical connectivity of these circuits has begun to be analyzed. Imaging in patients suggests that chronic pain is associated with altered function and structural abnormalities in pain modulatory circuits. Moreover, biochemical alterations associated with chronic pain are being identified that provide information on cellular correlates as well as potential mechanisms of structural changes. Data from these brain imaging studies reinforce the idea that chronic pain leads to brain changes that could have functional significance.This publication has 119 references indexed in Scilit:
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