Pain Research and Management (Jan 2012)

The Ventral Striatum is Implicated in the Analgesic Effect of Mood Changes

  • Chantal Villemure,
  • Audrey C Laferrière,
  • M Catherine Bushnell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/371362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 2
pp. 69 – 74

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The ventral striatum, particularly the nucleus accumbens, is commonly associated with the processing of reward and positive stimuli, positive affect as well as antinociceptive processes.