Brain Correlates of Continuous Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis as Measured by Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling.

Yvonne C LeeAlexander FineEkaterina ProtsenkoElena MassarottiRobert R EdwardsIshtiaq MawlaVitaly NapadowMarco L Loggia

Published in: Arthritis care & research (2019)

In response to clinically relevant joint pain evoked by pressure applied to the MCP joint, neural processing in the medial frontal cortex increases and is directly associated with clinical pain in patients with RA.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
rheumatoid arthritis
pain management
neuropathic pain
functional connectivity
disease activity
resting state
white matter
spinal cord injury
systemic lupus erythematosus
interstitial lung disease
brain injury
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
subarachnoid hemorrhage