Abstract #3035
Combined fMRI of the human brain and the cervical spinal cord to investigate pain processing
Christian Sprenger 1 , Jrgen Finsterbusch 1 , and Christian Bchel 1
1
Department of Systems Neuroscience,
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg,
Germany
With blood-oxygenation level-dependent functional MRI
(fMRI) the central nervous system can be investigated in
vivo, e.g., to study the representation and modulation
of pain. Many fMRI studies on the brain's role in pain
processing have been performed and recently interest in
the spinal cord's involvement has increased. However,
to study the functional interplay between the brain and
the spinal cord in pain processing, both regions must be
covered in a single measurement. Here, first results of
a combined fMRI study to investigate the processing of
painful thermal stimuli in the brain and the spinal cord
are presented.
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