Pain-related cerebral activation is altered by a distracting cognitive task.

It has previously been suggested that the activity in sensory regions of the brain can be modulated by attentional mechanisms during parallel cognitive processing. To investigate whether such attention-related modulations are present in the processing of pain, the regional cerebral blood flow was me...

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Published in:PAIN Vol. 85; no. 1-2; pp. 19 - 31
Main Authors: Petrovic, P, Petersson, K M, Ghatan, P H, Stone-Elander, S, Ingvar, M
Format: clinical trial research Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2000 Mar
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