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Exacerbation of pain by anxiety is associated with activity in a hippocampal networkA Ploghaus
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 21:9896-903. 2001..It supports the proposal that during anxiety, the hippocampal formation amplifies aversive events to prime behavioral responses that are adaptive to the worst possible outcome...
Dissociating pain from its anticipation in the human brainA Ploghaus
Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
Science 284:1979-81. 1999..Selective manipulations of activity at these sites may offer therapeutic possibilities for treating chronic pain...
Learning about pain: the neural substrate of the prediction error for aversive eventsA Ploghaus
Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:9281-6. 2000..Searching for interventions to specifically modulate activation of these brain regions therefore offers an approach to identifying new treatments for chronic pain, which often has a substantial associative learning component...
