How Close Are We in Utilizing Functional Neuroimaging in Routine Clinical Diagnosis of Neuropathic Pain?
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : David Borsook & Lino Becerra
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
As with many disorders affecting the central nervous system, treatment of chronic pain is fraught with difficulties related to specific diagnosis and measures of treatment efficacy. Given the recent advances that brainimaging techniques have contributed to our understanding of how chronic pain affects multiple aspects of brain function (including sensory, emotional, cognitive, and modulatory), opportunities to use these approaches in the clinic are clearly a focus of research laboratories around the world. The routine application of brain imaging as a clinical marker of disease state or therapeutic (drug) efficacy would significantly enhance the clinical process by providing objective measures for clinicians and patients
Curr Pain Headache Rep (2011) 15:223–229 DOI 10.1007/s11916-011-0187-1 Published online: 3 March 2011
