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Use of the Operant Orofacial Pain Assessment Device (OPAD) to Measure Changes in Nociceptive Behavior
Published on: June 10, 2013
[Effects of the removal of the orbito-frontal cortex on the development of reflex analgesia]
Abstract:
The authors studied the effect of electric acupuncture stimulation (EAP) on the changes in pain thresholds prior to and after removal of the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) of the brain in behavioral experiments on adult cats. Removal of OFC increased the thresholds of pain response at the 4th and the 5th levels of the conventional scale, reflecting emotionally-affective manifestations of pain, and intensified the effect of antinociceptive EAP. The results obtained are analysed in relation to the inhibitory tonic effect of OFC on antinociceptive structures of the brain. Different effects of OFC and somatosensory cortex on the antinociceptive structures of the brain are discussed.
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