CONTEXT: The perception of pain due to an acute injury or in clinical pain states undergoes
substantial processing at supraspinal levels. Supraspinal, brain mechanisms are …

Brain responses to pain, assessed through positron emission tomography (PET) and
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are reviewed. Functional activation of brain …

The irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is part of the larger group of functional gastrointestinal
(GI) disorders that, despite differences in location and symptom patterns, share common …

This review proposes that implicit learning processes are the cognitive substrate of social
intuition. This hypothesis is supported by (a) the conceptual correspondence between …

Lord Chesterfield gave his son, Philip, a great deal of advice--most of it having to do with
manipulating other people to one's own ends--and that advice has survived for nearly 3 …

Patients with fibromyalgia (FM) show characteristically enhanced unpleasantness to painful
and nonpainful sensations accompanied by altered neural responses. The diagnostic …

Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs.
Despite its ubiquity, the psychological and neurophysiological nature of pain remains …

We define these as the motivations and feelings that are associated with changes in the
body's physiological condition and with the autonomic responses and behaviors that occur …

Air hunger (uncomfortable urge to breathe) is a component of dyspnea (shortness of breath).
Three human H2 15O positron emission tomography (PET) studies have identified activation …

Recently, neuronal correlates of acupuncture stimulation in human brain have been
investigated by functional neuroimaging. The preliminary findings suggest that acupuncture …