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The Human Operculo-Insular Cortex Is Pain-Preferentially but Not Pain-Exclusively Activated by Trigeminal and Olfactory Stimuli

Increasing evidence about the central nervous representation of pain in the brain suggests that the operculo-insular cortex is a crucial part of the pain matrix. The pain-specificity of a brain region may be tested by administering nociceptive stimuli while controlling for unspecific activations by...

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Autores principales: Lötsch, Jörn, Walter, Carmen, Felden, Lisa, Nöth, Ulrike, Deichmann, Ralf, Oertel, Bruno G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22496865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034798