fMRI in analgesic drug discovery.

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Feb 11;7(274):274fs6

Authors: Wager TD, Woo CW

Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging offers an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate and compare drug effects on human brain activity and to provide systems-level predictions for how new drugs for chronic pain will affect the brain, thus accelerating drug discovery and repurposing (Duff et al., this issue).

PMID: 25673760 [PubMed - in process]