Pain Relief through Distraction -- It's Not All in Your Head (IMAGE)

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Pain Relief through Distraction -- It's Not All in Your Head

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This figure shows pain-Related BOLD responses during the Low Working Memory Load Condition. (A and B) Pain-related BOLD responses are overlaid on the mean structural image of all participants and display the spinal level of pain-related responses (segment C6, approximately at the border to C5). The white box indicates the sagittal section (B) and the blue line indicates the transverse section (C).

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Sprenger et al. <I>Current Biology</I>

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