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ReviewNeuroscience letters2019

Cortico-limbic pain mechanisms.

Jeremy M Thompson, Volker Neugebauer

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Review in Neuroscience letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

102 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Chronic Pain and Cognitive Dysfunction: Clinical Implement, Mechanism, and Therapeutic Strategy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  18. Low-intensity sciatic nerve-stretch injury increases nociception, anxiety-like behaviors, and astrocyte activity in male Wistar rats.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jeremy M ThompsonDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, United States.
Volker NeugebauerDepartment of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, United States; Center of Excellence for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, United States. Electronic address: volker.neugebauer@ttuhsc.edu.

Funding

PAIN, NOCICEPTION, AND THE AMYGDALAR01NS038261 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI Volker Neugebauer, Igor Ponomarev · 1999 to 2026
$8.7M
Stress-induced descending facilitation from amygdala kappa opioid receptors in functional painR01NS106902 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI NEUGEBAUER, VOLKER, PORRECA, FRANK · 2018 to 2022
$2.7M
Amygdala Serotonin Neurotransmission and Neuropathic PainR01NS081121 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI GREEN, THOMAS ARTHUR, NEUGEBAUER, VOLKER · 2013 to 2017
$2.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038261NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS081121NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS106902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain has a strong emotional component and is defined by its unpleasantness. Chronic pain represents a complex disorder with anxio-depressive symptoms and cognitive deficits. Underlying mechanisms are still not well understood but an important role for interactions between prefrontal cortical areas and subcortical limbic structures has emerged. Evidence from preclinical studies in the rodent brain suggests that neuroplastic changes in prefrontal (anterior cingulate, prelimbic and infralimbic) cortical and subcortical (amygdala and nucleus accumbens) brain areas and their interactions (corticolimbic circuitry) contribute to the complexity and persistence of pain and may be predetermining factors as has been proposed in recent human neuroimaging studies.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansLimbic SystemPainPrefrontal CortexAffectiveAmygdalaCognitiveHippocampusNeuroplasticityNucleus accumbensPain modulationPrefrontal cortexVulnerability

Identifiers

PMID30503916
PMCPMC6520155

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