TY  - JOUR
T1  - Central pain syndrome: Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management
AU  - Nampiaparampil DE
Y1  - 2012/03/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.273
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1087
EP  - 1088
VL  - 307
IS  - 10
N2  - 
Central Pain Syndrome encompasses 26 chapters grouped into 4 sections: “Introduction,” “Clinical Features and Diagnosis,” “Treatment,” and “Pathophysiology.” The last section, perhaps the most interesting, discusses cases in which central pain syndromes have spontaneously resolved. The chapter on imaging provides an excellent synthesis of studies on central pain that have used single-photon–emission computed tomography, positron-emission tomography, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The chapter covering the attractor-dynamic-reverberation theory is fascinating, as is the appendix, “Erroneous Theories of Central Pain.”

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.273
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.273
ER  -