Somatotopic organisation of the human insula to painful heat studied with high resolution functional imaging.
Pain perception is a multidimensional phenomenon, derived from sensory, affective, cognitive-evaluative and homeostatic information. Neuroimaging studies of pain perception have investigated the role of primary somatosensory cortex (SI); however, they have typically failed to demonstrate the expecte...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2005
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