Quantifying cerebral contributions to pain beyond nociception

Choong-Wan Woo; Liane Schmidt; Anjali Krishnan; Marieke Jepma; Mathieu Roy; Martin A. Lindquist; Lauren Y. Atlas; Tor D. Wager

doi:10.1038/ncomms14211

Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Quantifying cerebral contributions to pain beyond nociception

Choong-Wan Woo,
Liane Schmidt,
Anjali Krishnan,
Marieke Jepma,
Mathieu Roy,
Martin A. Lindquist,
Lauren Y. Atlas,
Tor D. Wager

Affiliations

Choong-Wan Woo: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder
Liane Schmidt: INSEAD, Fontainebleau
Anjali Krishnan: Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Marieke Jepma: Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University
Mathieu Roy: Department of Psychology, McGill University
Martin A. Lindquist: Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Lauren Y. Atlas: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health
Tor D. Wager: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14211
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Pain is affected by cerebral processes in addition to afferent nociceptive input. Here the authors develop an fMRI-based signature that predicts pain independent of the intensity of nociceptive signals and mediates the pain-modulating effects of several cognitive interventions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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