Temporal and intensity coding of pain in human cortex

CA Porro, V Cettolo… - Journal of …, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
Porro, Carlo A., Valentina Cettolo, Maria Pia Francescato, and Patrizia Baraldi. Temporal
and intensity coding of pain in human cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3312–3320, 1998. We …

Multiple brain networks mediating stimulus–pain relationships in humans

S Geuter, EA Reynolds Losin, M Roy, LY Atlas… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The brain transforms nociceptive input into a complex pain experience comprised of
sensory, affective, motivational, and cognitive components. However, it is still unclear how …

Altered excitability and local connectivity of mPFC-PAG neurons in a mouse model of neuropathic pain

J Cheriyan, PL Sheets - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays a major role in both sensory and affective aspects
of pain. There is extensive evidence that chronic pain produces functional changes within …

Corticostriatal regulation of acute pain

E Martinez, HH Lin, H Zhou, J Dale, K Liu… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The mechanisms for acute pain regulation in the brain are not well understood. The
prefrontal cortex (PFC) provides top-down control of emotional processes, and it projects to …

Molecular, circuit, and anatomical changes in the prefrontal cortex in chronic pain

S Shiers, TJ Price - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The brain integrates information about the intensity, quality, and location of noxious inputs
with other states such as attention, anxiety, fear, and expectation. A key brain region where …

Different brain circuitries mediating controllable and uncontrollable pain

AK Bräscher, S Becker, ME Hoeppli… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Uncontrollable, compared with controllable, painful stimulation can lead to increased pain
perception and activation in pain-processing brain regions, but it is currently unknown which …

Dual and opposing functions of the central amygdala in the modulation of pain

TD Wilson, S Valdivia, A Khan, HS Ahn, AP Adke… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Pain perception is essential for survival and can be amplified or suppressed by
expectations, experiences, and context. The neural mechanisms underlying bidirectional …

[HTML][HTML] Brain oscillations differentially encode noxious stimulus intensity and pain intensity

MM Nickel, ES May, L Tiemann, P Schmidt… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
Noxious stimuli induce physiological processes which commonly translate into pain.
However, under certain conditions, pain intensity can substantially dissociate from stimulus …

Brain circuits for pain and its treatment

N Mercer Lindsay, C Chen, G Gilam… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Pain is a multidimensional experience with sensory-discriminative, affective-motivational,
and cognitive-evaluative components. Pain aversiveness is one principal cause of suffering …

Brain mechanisms of pain affect and pain modulation

P Rainville - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Recent animal studies reveal ascending nociceptive and descending modulatory pathways
that may contribute to the affective–motivational aspects of pain and play a critical role in the …