http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5739 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>Assessing Nociception by fMRI of the Human Spinal Cord: A Systematic Review.</b></p> <p>Magn Reson Insights. 2015;8(Suppl 1):31-9</p> <p>Authors: Kolesar TA, Fiest KM, Smith SD, Kornelsen J</p> <p>Abstract<br/> OBJECTIVE: To assess the use of fMRI of the spinal cord in measuring noxious stimulation.<br/> METHODS: The Scopus, Medline, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases were searched, along with the reference lists of included articles. Two independent reviewers screened abstracts, full-text articles, and extracted data. Original research was included if fMRI of the human spinal cord was used to measure responses to noxious stimulation.<br/> RESULTS: Of the 192 abstracts screened, 19 met the search criteria and were divided according to their focus: investigating pain responses (n = 6), methodology (n = 6), spinal cord injury (n = 2), or cognition-pain interactions (n = 5). All but one study appear to have observed activity in ipsilateral and dorsal gray matter regions in response to noxious stimuli, although contralateral or ventral activity was also widely observed.<br/> CONCLUSIONS: Although nociception can be investigated using spinal fMRI, establishing reliability, standardizing methodology, and reporting of results will greatly advance this field.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 26543372 [PubMed]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Sun, 03 May 2026 23:10:08 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator