ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Brain representations of affective valence and intensity in sustained pleasure and pain.
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- Brain representations of affective valence and intensity in sustained pleasure and pain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Towards a Real-Life Understanding of the Altered Functional Behaviour of the Default Mode and Salience Network in Chronic Pain: Are People with Chronic Pain Overthinking the Meaning of Their Pain?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Pleasure and pain are two fundamental, intertwined aspects of human emotions. Pleasurable sensations can reduce subjective feelings of pain and vice versa, and we often perceive the termination of pain as pleasant and the absence of pleasure as unpleasant. This implies the existence of brain systems that integrate them into modality-general representations of affective experiences. Here, we examined representations of affective valence and intensity in an functional MRI (fMRI) study (
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