Diffuse optical tomography activation in the somatosensory cortex: specific activation by painful vs. non-painful thermal stimuli.

Pain is difficult to assess due to the subjective nature of self-reporting. The lack of objective measures of pain has hampered the development of new treatments as well as the evaluation of current ones. Functional MRI studies of pain have begun to delineate potential brain response signatures that...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Lino Becerra, Will Harris, Margaret Grant, Edward George, David Boas, David Borsook
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-11-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2778627?pdf=render