ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2023
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits.
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- Chronic low back pain as a control failure state: a predictive-rhythm model of motor control impairment and functional rigidity with functional system constraint modulation.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Design of Immersive Virtual Reality Systems and Their Application in Zoster-Associated Pain Following Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Investigating the Influence of Experimentally Induced Secondary Hyperalgesia on Pain Prediction Error Encoding in Healthy Individuals: A Novel Virtual Reality Protocol.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- EEG oscillations reveal neuroplastic changes in pain processing associated with long-term meditation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Beyond Needling: Integrating a Bayesian Brain Model into Acupuncture Treatment.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- How Bud Craig's Insights Reshape the Research on Pain and Mind-Body Therapies.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Integrated manual therapies: IASP taskforce viewpoint.Pain reports · 2024Article
- Development, Insults and Predisposing Factors of the Brain's Predictive Coding System to Chronic Perceptual Disorders-A Life-Course Examination.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Analgesia for the Bayesian Brain: How Predictive Coding Offers Insights Into the Subjectivity of Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
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Abstract
Predictive coding is a computational theory on describing how the brain perceives and acts, which has been widely adopted in sensory processing and motor control. Nociceptive and pain processing involves a large and distributed network of circuits. However, it is still unknown whether this distributed network is completely decentralized or requires networkwide coordination. Multiple lines of evidence from human and animal studies have suggested that the cingulate cortex and insula cortex (cingulate-insula network) are two major hubs in mediating information from sensory afferents and spinothalamic inputs, whereas subregions of cingulate and insula cortices have distinct projections and functional roles. In this mini-review, we propose an updated hierarchical predictive coding framework for pain perception and discuss its related computational, algorithmic, and implementation issues. We suggest active inference as a generalized predictive coding algorithm, and hierarchically organized traveling waves of independent neural oscillations as a plausible brain mechanism to integrate bottom-up and top-down information across distributed pain circuits.
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