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 …

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

This paper presents an approach to rehabilitation of pain patients. The fundamental
principles of the approach are (i) pain is an output of the brain that is produced whenever the …

Methods We selected data for this review from our personal files and from searches of
PubMed. We used the search terms pain, chronic pain, persistent pain, acute pain, pain …

We present a general method for automatic meta-analyses in neuroscience and apply it on
text data from published functional imaging studies to extract main functions associated with …

Specific central nervous system (CNS) responses to acupuncture have recently attracted
attention. It is important to understand the differences in fMRI images of the brain evoked by …

This article presents the hypothesis that acupuncture enhances anticancer immune
functions by stimulating natural killer (NK) cells. It provides background information on …

Most imaging studies on the human pain system have concentrated so far on the spatial
distribution of pain-related activity. In the present study, we investigated similarities and …

Adolescence is a sensitive period for both brain development and the emergence of chronic
pain particularly in females. However, the brain mechanisms supporting pain perception …