Pain ratings, psychological functioning and quantitative EEG in a controlled study of chronic back pain patients.

Several recent studies report the presence of a specific EEG pattern named Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia (TCD) in patients with severe chronic neurogenic pain. This is of major interest since so far no neuroscientific indicator of chronic pain could be identified. We investigated whether a TCD-like pa...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stefan Schmidt, José Raúl Naranjo, Christina Brenneisen, Julian Gundlach, Claudia Schultz, Holger Kaube, Thilo Hinterberger, Daniel Jeanmonod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3303776?pdf=render