This review summarizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) findings that have informed …

• Abstract
• Background: 'O (Chronic) Pain Miserum'
• Advancing our Understanding of CNS Mechanisms in Acute and Chronic Pain through fMRI
• fMRI studies of Endogenous Analgesia
• fMRI Studies of Analgesics
• Conclusion
• Abbreviation List
• References
• Figure
• Tables

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Abbreviation List

- Breaking down the barriers: fMRI applications in pain, analgesia and analgesics

aCG – anterior cingulated cortex; CNS – central nervous system; CRPS – complex regional pain syndrome; DNIC – Diffuse noxious inhibitory Controls; GOb – Orbitorfrontal cortex; Hi – Hippocampus; I – Insula; IBS – irritable bowel syndrome; NAc – nucleus accumbens; nCF – cuneiform nucleus; P – putamen; PAG – periaqueductal gray; pCG – posterior cingulated cortex; Rx – treatment; SCI – Spinal cord injury; SI – primary somatosensory cortex; SII – secondary somatosensory cortex; SLEA – sublenticular extended amygdala; SMP – sympathetically maintained pain; TG – trigeminal ganglion; TN – trigeminal nucleus; VAS – visual analogue scale; VMpo – ventromedial nucleus;