Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
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Comparative Study
Short-term plastic changes of the human nociceptive system following acute pain induced by capsaicin.
To investigate possible neuroplastic changes induced by pain in cerebral areas devoted to nociceptive input processing. ⋯ Our results suggest that acute cutaneous pain may inhibit the neural activity in regions of central nervous system processing nociceptive inputs and cortical representation of these inputs can be rapidly modified in presence of acute pain.