Activity in brain area linked to brain intensity
Activity in the dorsal posterior insula area of the brain is directly related to the intensity of pain, a brain imaging study of 17 people has found.
Researchers at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain used a new brain imaging technique to look at people experiencing pain over many hours. Activity in only one brain area, the dorsal posterior insula, reflected the participants' ratings of how much the pain hurt.
These results, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could help detect pain in people with limited communication abilities, such as those in a coma, small children and dementia patients.
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