Affective Touch: The Enigmatic Spinal Pathway of the C-Tactile Afferent
Neuroscience Insights, 2020 C-tactile afferents are hypothesized to form a distinct peripheral channel that encodes the affective nature of touch. Prevailing views indicate they project, as with other unmyelinated afferents, in lamina I-spinothalamic pathways that relay ...
Andrew G Marshall, Francis P McGlone
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Brain Sciences, 2020 Post-trauma chronic pain characterized by central pain is a symptom following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Studies on the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on central pain and the association between central pain and ...
Dong-Ha Kang, Gi-Wook Kim
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Case of Brown Sequard syndrome with ipsilateral peripheral vasodilation
Radiology Case Reports, 2020 Brown-Sequard Syndrome is a neurologic disorder caused by partial spinal cord injury and disruption of the corticospinal tract, dorsal columns, and spinothalamic tract.
Kari Nelson, MD +2 more
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White matter microstructure predicts measures of clinical symptoms in chronic back pain patients
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 Chronic back pain (CBP) has extensive clinical and social implications for its sufferers and is a major source of disability. Chronic pain has previously been shown to have central neural factors underpinning it, including the loss of white matter (WM ...
Jason W. Robertson +2 more
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Thermosensory thalamus: parallel processing across model organisms
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 The thalamus acts as an interface between the periphery and the cortex, with nearly every sensory modality processing information in the thalamocortical circuit.
Tobias M. Leva +5 more
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of Non-hemiplegic Upper Limb in a Stroke Patient: A Case Report [PDF]
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2018 Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I in stroke patients is usually known to affect the hemiplegic upper limb. We report a case of CRPS presented in an ipsilesional arm of a 72-year-old female patient after an ischemic stroke at the left middle ...
Ahry Lee +3 more
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OPEN ANTERIOR CORDOTOMY AS A POSSIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR PAIN RELIEF IN CANCER PATIENT: AN EXPERIENCE WITH SEVEN CASES [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 1996 Seven patients who had intractable pain of the pelvis and lower extremities were scheduled for cordotomy of the spinothalamic tracts after preliminary investigations.
Sheikhrezai +4 more
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Midlateral medullary infarction presenting with isolated thermoanaesthesia: a case report
BMC Neurology, 2022 Background A small lateral medullary lesion could produce isolated impairment of temperature sensation without concomitant impaired pain sensation. However, only one such case has ever been reported, and there are no reports on subjective symptoms and ...
Keisuke Hanada +5 more
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Sensory Function and Chronic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis
Pain Research and Management, 2018 Objective. To examine whether hypoesthesia and chronic pain are related in patients with MS. Methods. Sixty-seven MS patients with pain and 80 persons without MS were included. Sensory functioning was tested by bedside neurological examination.
Rogier J. Scherder +4 more
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Effects of dorsal column stimulation on primate spinothalamic tract neurons [PDF]
, 1976 The effect of dorsal column stimulation on spinothalamic tract cells was investigated in anesthetized monkeys. The dorsal column stimuli were applied at midthoracic or at cervical levels of the cord, while the responses of spinothalamic tract cells of ...
J. D. Coulter +3 more
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