Neuroimaging-based evidence for sympathetic correlation between brain activity and peripheral vasomotion during pain anticipation

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 3383 - 14
• Main Authors: Xu, Ziqiang, Soh, Zu, Kurota, Yuta, Kimura, Yuya, Hirano, Harutoyo, Sasaoka, Takafumi, Yoshino, Atsuo, Tsuji, Toshio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.02.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378; 639/166/985; Anxiety; Brain mapping; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humanities and Social Sciences; Innervation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical imaging; multidisciplinary; Neuroimaging; Pain; Pain perception; Perception; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensation; Sympathetic nervous system; Visual stimuli

Anticipation of pain engenders anxiety and fear, potentially shaping pain perception and governing bodily responses such as peripheral vasomotion through the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Sympathetic innervation of vascular tone during pain perception has been quantified using a peripheral arter...