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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2018 Mar;159(3):603–609. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001141

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Neural circuitry and brain regions involved in itch. Different types of neuropathic itch have been found to arise from lesions at different levels of the pathway. Abbrevions: ACC: anterior cingulate cortex; PFC: prefrontal cortex; SI: primary somatosensory cortex; SII: secondary somatosensory cortex; PBn: parabrachial nucleus; PAG: periaqueductal gray; DRG: dorsal root ganglia