Opioid analgesia alters corticospinal coupling along the descending pain system in healthy participants
Opioids are potent analgesic drugs with widespread cortical, subcortical, and spinal targets. In particular, the central pain system comprising ascending and descending pain pathways has high opioid receptor densities and is thus crucial for opioid analgesia. Here, we investigated the effects of the...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2022-04-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/74293 |