Towards a taxonomy of pain modulations.
The subjective experience of pain is affected by various modulating factors, such as the sufferer's level of anxiety or distraction. A recent study sheds light on the neural underpinnings of pain modulation and illustrates how we can advance towards an integrated psychological, neurobiological and clinical taxonomy of pain modulations.
Department of Neurology and TUM-Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: ploner@lrz.tum.de.
Markus
M
Ploner
Department of Neurology, Essen University Hospital, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Ulrike
U
Bingel
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
Katja
K
Wiech
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D059225:Nociception; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*
brain; neurobiology; pain; pain modulation; psychology; taxonomy