Supraspinal characterization of the thermal grill illusion with fMRI

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• 作者：Albert Leung ; Shivshil Shukla ; Eric Li ; Jeng-Ren Duann ; Tony Yaksh
• 关键词：Thermal grill illusion ; Neuropathic pain ; Sensory integration ; Spatial summation ; fMRI
• 刊名：Molecular Pain
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：2,739 KB
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• 刊物主题：Pain Medicine; Molecular Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1744-8069

文摘

Background Simultaneous presentation of non-noxious warm (40°C) and cold (20°C) stimuli in an interlacing fashion results in a transient hot burning noxious sensation (matched at 46°C) known as the thermal grill (TG) illusion. Functional magnetic resonance imaging and psychophysical assessments were utilized to compare the supraspinal events related to the spatial summation effect of three TG presentations: 20°C/20°C (G2020), 20°C/40°C (G2040) and 40°C/40°C (G4040) with corresponding matched thermode stimuli: 20°C (P20), 46°C (P46) and 40°C (P40) and hot pain (HP) stimuli. Results For G2040, the hot burning sensation was only noted during the initial off-line assessment. In comparison to P40, G4040 resulted in an equally enhanced response from all supraspinal regions associated with both pain sensory/discriminatory and noxious modulatory response. In comparison to P20, G2020 presentation resulted in a much earlier diminished/sedative response leading to a statistically significantly (P--.01) higher degree of deactivation in modulatory supraspinal areas activated by G4040. Granger Causality Analysis showed that while thalamic activation in HP may cast activation inference in all hot pain related somatosensory, affective and modulatory areas, similar activation in G2040 and G2020 resulted in deactivation inference in the corresponding areas. Conclusions In short, the transient TG sensation is caused by a dissociated state derived from non-noxious warm and cold spatial summation interaction. The observed central dissociated state may share some parallels in certain chronic neuropathic pain states.