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The emotional brain as a predictor and amplifier of chronic pain
Journal of Dental Research
Most recent synthesis of brain imaging evidence demonstrating the role of the brain, and particularly emotional learning, in predisposition for, transition to, and maintenance of chronic pain.
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Multisite, multimodal neuroimaging of chronic urologic pelvic pain: Methodology of the MAPP research network
Clinical Neuroimaging
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Unique Microstructural Changes in the Brain Associated with Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (UCPPS) Revealed by Diffusion Tensor MRI, Super-Resolution Track Density Imaging, and Statistical Parameter Mapping: A MAPP Network Neuroimaging Study
PLoS One
Women and men with urological chronic pelvic pain exhibit unique patterns of white matter microstructural abnormalities that are not observed in other chronic visceral pain (irritable bowel syndrome).
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The posterior medial cortex in urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome: detachment from default mode network-a resting-state study from the MAPP Research Network
Pain
Women and men with chronic pelvic pain exhibit significantly decreased functional connectivity of the default mode network to the posterior cingulate cortex and the left precuneus, and degree of connectivity correlated with measures of symptom severity.
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Brain White Matter Abnormalities in Female Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome: A MAPP Network Neuroimaging Study
Journal of Urology
An IC/BPS-specific pattern of region increases and decreases in fractional anisotropy (a measure of axonal microstructure assessed via diffusion tensor imaging) are correlated with clinical symptom severity.
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Altered resting state neuromotor connectivity in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: A MAPP Research Network Neuroimaging Study
NeuroImage Clinical
Men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome show divergent functional connectivity between pelvic-motor and the right posterior insula, compared to healthy controls.
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What is special about the vulvar vestibule? (Commentary)
Pain
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Site-specific mesenchymal control of inflammatory pain to yeast challenge in vulvodynia-afflicted and pain-free women, by Foster et al. 2015. -
Increased brain gray matter in the primary somatosensory cortex is associated with increased pain and mood disturbance in patients with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome.
Journal of Urology
Interstitial cystitis is a highly prevalent pain condition estimated to affect 3% to 6% of women in the United States. Emerging data suggest there are central neurobiological components to the etiology of this disease. We report the first brain structural imaging findings from the MAPP network with data on more than 300 participants.
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Preliminary structural MRI based brain classification of chronic pelvic pain: A MAPP network study
Pain
This paper identifies a preliminary classifier based on brain structure (increased grey matter density in S1, hippocampus, amygdala, and pre-supplementary motor area) that is able to predict the presence of chronic pelvic pain.
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Chronic pain: The role of learning and brain plasticity
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
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Psychophysical properties of female genital sensation
Pain
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A dynamic network perspective of chronic pain
Neuroscience Letters
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Repeated vulvovaginal fungal infections cause persistent pain in a mouse model of vulvodynia
Science Translational Medicine
First causal evidence of an etiology for chronic vulvar pain and the first evidence that repeated infections can cause chronic pain.
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Brain functional and anatomical changes in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
Journal of Urology
First evidence of brain functional and anatomical abnormalities in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
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Brain white matter changes associated with urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome: Multi-site neuroimaging from a MAPP case-control study
Forthcoming in Pain
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