Corticostriatal Regulation of Acute Pain

The mechanisms for acute pain regulation in the brain are not well understood. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) provides top-down control of emotional processes, and it projects to the nucleus accumbens (NAc). This corticostriatal projection forms an important regulatory pathway within the brain’s reward...

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Main Authors: Erik Martinez, Harvey H. Lin, Haocheng Zhou, Jahrane Dale, Kevin Liu, Jing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncel.2017.00146/full