Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Chronic low back pain"

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    • Disrupted functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray in chronic low back pain 

      Yu, Rongjun; Gollub, Randy L.; Spaeth, Rosa; Napadow, Vitaly; Wasan, Ajay; Kong, Jian (Elsevier, 2014)
      Chronic low back pain is a common neurological disorder. The periaqueductal gray (PAG) plays a key role in the descending modulation of pain. In this study, we investigated brain resting state PAG functional connectivity ...

    • S1 is associated with chronic low back pain: a functional and structural MRI study 

      Kong, Jian; Spaeth, Rosa B; Wey, Hsiao-Ying; Cheetham, Alexandra; Cook, Amanda H; Jensen, Karin; Tan, Ying; Liu, Hesheng; Wang, Danhong; Loggia, Marco L; Napadow, Vitaly; Smoller, Jordan W; Wasan, Ajay D; Gollub, Randy L (BioMed Central, 2013)
      A fundamental characteristic of neural circuits is the capacity for plasticity in response to experience. Neural plasticity is associated with the development of chronic pain disorders. In this study, we investigated 1) ...