Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Pain-free resting-state functional brain connectivity predicts individual pain sensitivity

  • Tamas Spisak,
  • Balint Kincses,
  • Frederik Schlitt,
  • Matthias Zunhammer,
  • Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke,
  • Zsigmond T. Kincses,
  • Ulrike Bingel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13785-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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An fMRI-based brain signature to predict an individual’s pain sensitivity could be useful clinically. Here the authors identify a network in the resting brain which can be used to predict responses to noxious stimuli in healthy subjects.