Cognitive modulation of pain-related brain responses. Comments on Seminowicz et al. (Pain 2004;112:48-58)

Valéry Legrain1, Léon Plaghki, Luis García-Larrea

  • 1Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Brussels, Belgium Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives (NESC), Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Centre de Lutte contre la Douleur, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium Unité de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique (READ), Faculté de Médecine, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium INSERM E342 (Central Integration of Pain), Hôpital neurologique and Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.

Pain
|March 22, 2005
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