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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2016 Apr;157(4):840–848. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000446

Figure 5. Propagation of nociceptive signal and pain processing in the brain.

Figure 5

(a) Pain pathways associated with activation of sensorimotor cortex and deactivation of prefrontal cortex. (b) Pain processing results in both activation and deactivation of specific prefrontal cortex regions.