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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY
卷 37, 期 3, 页码 430-438出版社
AMER SOC NEURORADIOLOGY
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A4556
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- Netherlands Society for Scientific Research VIDI [917103521]
- Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University (Rotterdam)
- Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development
- Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports
- European Commission (DG XII)
- Municipality of Rotterdam
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Central sensitization in chronic pain involves structural brain changes that influence vulnerability to pain. Identifying brain regions involved in pain processing and sensitization can provide more insight into chronic pain. This study examines structural brain changes in chronic pain and experimental pain in a large population-based study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For 3892 participants in the Rotterdam study, global and regional MR imaging brain volumes were automatically segmented and quantified. Chronic joint pain was defined as pain for more than half of all days during the past 6 weeks. Heat pain thresholds were measured in a subset of 1538 individuals. The association between the presence of chronic joint pain and global and lobar brain volumes was studied. Subsequently, literature was reviewed and the association of chronic pain and heat pain thresholds with 11 brain regions associated with musculoskeletal pain in previous publications was studied. RESULTS: Total gray matter volume was smaller in women with chronic pain ( = -0.066, P = .016). This effect was primarily driven by lower gray matter volume in the temporal lobe ( = 0.086, P = .005), the frontal lobe ( = -0.060, P = .039), and the hippocampus ( = -0.099, P = .002). In addition, we observed that a lower heat pain threshold was associated with smaller volumes of the hippocampus ( = 0.017, P = .048), the thalamus ( = 0.018, P = .009), and the anterior cingulate cortex ( = -0.016, P = .037). In men, no significant associations were observed. CONCLUSIONS: The primary identified brain areas, the temporal and frontal lobes and the hippocampus, indicated involvement of emotional processing. The volumetric differences found indicated a sex-specific neuroplasticity in chronic pain. These results emphasized sex-specific and multidisciplinary pain treatment.
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