ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2017
Brain Rhythms of Pain.
Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 218 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Modulating Pain Using Transcranial Alternating Stimulation (tACS) in Healthy Human Subjects
Brain and Pain (BaP): Understanding the Central Mechanisms of Pain to Improve Management of Patients With Refractory Chronic Pain
EEG-characteristics of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Chronic Pain
How do Alpha Oscillations Shape the Perception of Pain? - An EEG-based Neurofeedback Study
Measuring Pain Perception to the Same Stimulus in Different Patients Using Electroencephalography and Numerical Rate Scale
Who cites it
218 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Potential applications of artificial intelligence in pain management: a scoping review.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Magnetoencephalography studies in migraine and headache disorders: A systematic review.Headache · 2025Pooled it
- Does brain entrainment using binaural auditory beats affect pain perception in acute and chronic pain?: a systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Pooled it
- Common and specific large-scale brain changes in major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain: a transdiagnostic multimodal meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Variability and effect sizes of intracranial current source density estimations during pain: Systematic review, experimental findings, and future perspectives.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
- Peak Alpha Frequency Is Not Significantly Altered by Five Days of Experimental Pain and Repetitive Transcranial Stimulation of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Trial
- Can EEG-Neurofeedback Training Enhance Effective Connectivity in People With Chronic Secondary Musculoskeletal Pain? A Secondary Analysis of a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Closed-Loop Infraslow Brain-Computer Interface can Modulate Cortical Activity and Connectivity in Individuals With Chronic Painful Knee Osteoarthritis: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.Clinical EEG and neuroscience · 2025Trial
- Neurofeedback and attention modulate somatosensory alpha oscillations but not pain perception.PLoS biology · 2025Trial
- An Educational and Exercise Mobile Phone-Based Intervention to Elicit Electrophysiological Changes and to Improve Psychological Functioning in Adults With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain (BackFit App): Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Trial
- Effects of chiropractic spinal manipulation on laser-evoked pain and brain activity.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2021Trial
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- One's Interoception Affects the Representation of Seeing Others' Pain: A Randomized Controlled qEEG Study.Pain research & management · 2021Trial
- Individual variation in alpha neurofeedback training efficacy predicts pain modulation.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Trial
- Dynamics of the perception and EEG signals triggered by tonic warm and cool stimulation.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Neural and behavioral changes driven by observationally-induced hypoalgesia.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Neurobiological mechanisms of TENS-induced analgesia.NeuroImage · 2019Trial
- Identifying and Engaging Neuronal Oscillations by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Crossover, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Pilot Study.The journal of pain · 2019Trial
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- From Oscillations to Brain States: Real-Time EEG-TMS for Adaptive Neuromodulation.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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Abstract
Pain is an integrative phenomenon that results from dynamic interactions between sensory and contextual (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and motivational) processes. In the brain the experience of pain is associated with neuronal oscillations and synchrony at different frequencies. However, an overarching framework for the significance of oscillations for pain remains lacking. Recent concepts relate oscillations at different frequencies to the routing of information flow in the brain and the signaling of predictions and prediction errors. The application of these concepts to pain promises insights into how flexible routing of information flow coordinates diverse processes that merge into the experience of pain. Such insights might have implications for the understanding and treatment of chronic pain.
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