Insular and anterior cingulate cortex deep stimulation for central neuropathic pain: Disassembling the percept of

Ricardo Galhardoni1, Valquíria Aparecida da Silva1, Luís García-Larrea1

  • 1From the Pain Center (L.M.B., L.M.B.M., R.D.T.d.S., F.V., J.R., M.J.T., D.C.d.A.), Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo; Pain Center (R.G.G., V.S., A.L.d.L.R., D.T.R.M.F., P.M.L.S., M.A.M., S.R.D.T.d.S., A.M.B.L.F., M.J.T., D.C.d.A.), LIM62 Neurosurgery LIM, Department of Neurology, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (L.T.Y.), Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroimaging (LIM-21) (F.L.d.S.D.), Department and Institute of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo; Service of Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation (R.G.G., V.S., A.R.B., M.J.T., D.C.d.A.), Laboratory of Neuroscience (LIM27) and National Institute of Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry, Department and Institute of Psychiatry, Neuroradiology Section (L.T.L., F.E.F.d.S.), Instituto de Radiologia, and Department of Radiology (C.R.O., C.A.B.), University of São Paulo School of Medicine; Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition (A.F.B.), Federal University of ABC, São Bernardo do Campo; School of Medicine (R.G.G.), University of City of São Paulo; Department of Anatomy (C.D.), Institute of Biomedical Sciences of University of São Paulo, Brazil; and Central Integration of Pain (NeuroPain) (L.G.-L.), Lyon Centre for Neurosciences, Inserm U1028, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and Hospices Civils de Lyon, France.

Neurology
|April 7, 2019
PubMed
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