Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Alterations in Dopamine Neurotransmission in the Ventral Striatum.

Martikainen, Ilkka K

Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Alterations in Dopamine Neurotransmission in the Ventral Striatum. [electronic resource] - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Jul 2015 - 9957-65 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

1529-2401

10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4605-14.2015 doi


Adult
Analgesics, Opioid--pharmacokinetics
Back Pain--pathology
Brain Mapping
Carbon Radioisotopes--pharmacokinetics
Chronic Disease
Dopamine--metabolism
Dopamine Antagonists--pharmacokinetics
Female
Fentanyl--analogs & derivatives
Humans
Male
Pain Measurement
Protein Binding--drug effects
Raclopride--pharmacokinetics
Radionuclide Imaging
Receptors, Dopamine D2--metabolism
Receptors, Dopamine D3--metabolism
Synaptic Transmission--physiology
Ventral Striatum--diagnostic imaging
Young Adult