The Role of Prefrontal Inhibition in Regulating Facial Expressions of Pain: A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study
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- 作者：Anna Julia Karmann&lowast ; ; anna.karmann@uni-bamberg.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Christian Maihö ; fner&dagger ; ; Stefan Lautenbacher&lowast ; ; Wolfgang Sperling&Dagger ; ; Johannes Kornhuber&Dagger ; ; Miriam Kunz&lowast ; ; § ;
- 关键词：Pain ; facial expression ; cerebral regulation ; medial prefrontal cortex ; inhibition
- 刊名：The Journal of Pain
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：17
- 期：3
- 页码：383-391
- 全文大小：673 K
文摘
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We examined the cerebral regulation of facial expressions of pain using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied over the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC).
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Interrupting activity of the mPFC led to greater facial expressiveness to pain.
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The mPFC is a key structure for regulating facial pain communication.