Pain-related gamma band oscillations: Progress and prospect

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Gamma Oscillations in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex Reflect Pain Perception

Successful behavior requires selection and preferred processing of relevant sensory information. The cortical representation of relevant sensory information has been related to neuronal oscillations in the gamma frequency band. Pain is of invariably high behavioral relevance and, thus, nociceptive stimuli receive preferred processing. Here, by using magnetoencephalography, we show that selectiv...

Gamma oscillations are involved in the sensorimotor transformation of pain

Schulz E, Tiemann L, Witkovsky V, Schmidt P, Ploner M. Gamma oscillations are involved in the sensorimotor transformation of pain. J Neurophysiol 108: 1025–1031, 2012. First published May 23, 2012; doi:10.1152/jn.00186.2012.—Pain signals threat and initiates motor responses to avoid harm. The transformation of pain into a motor response is thus an essential part of pain. Here, we investigated t...

Prefrontal Gamma Oscillations Encode Tonic Pain in Humans.

Under physiological conditions, momentary pain serves vital protective functions. Ongoing pain in chronic pain states, on the other hand, is a pathological condition that causes widespread suffering and whose treatment remains unsatisfactory. The brain mechanisms of ongoing pain are largely unknown. In this study, we applied tonic painful heat stimuli of varying degree to healthy human subjects...