Beyond feeling: chronic pain hurts the brain, disrupting the default-mode network dynamics.
Published in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience • Feb 6, 2008
Authors:,,
Marwan N Baliki
Paul Y Geha
A Vania Apkarian
Abstract
Chronic pain patients suffer from more than just pain; depression and anxiety, sleep disturbances, and decision-making abnormalities (Apkarian et al., 2004a) also significantly diminish their quality of life. Recent studies have demonstrated that chronic pain harms cortical areas unrelated to pain (...
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