Top-down control of pain

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences and Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
² School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK.

Editorial

Lucy F Donaldson et al. J Physiol. 2017.

. 2017 Jul 1;595(13):4139-4140.

doi: 10.1113/JP273361.

¹ School of Life Sciences and Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
² School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK.

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Keywords: PAG; RVM; pain; spinal cord.

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Does exercise increase or decrease pain? Central mechanisms underlying these two phenomena.
Lima LV, Abner TSS, Sluka KA. Lima LV, et al. J Physiol. 2017 Jul 1;595(13):4141-4150. doi: 10.1113/JP273355. Epub 2017 May 26. J Physiol. 2017. PMID: 28369946 Free PMC article. Review.

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