Attention modulates spinal cord responses to pain.

Reduced pain perception while being distracted from pain is an everyday example of how cognitive processes can interfere with pain perception. Previous neuroimaging studies showed distraction-related modulations of pain-driven activations in various cortical and subcortical brain regions, but the pr...

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Main Authors: Sprenger, C, Eippert, F, Finsterbusch, J, Bingel, U, Rose, M, Büchel, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012