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Wakaizumi K, Shinohara Y, Kawate M, Matsudaira K, Oka H, Yamada K, Jabakhanji R, Baliki MN. Exercise effect on pain is associated with negative and positive affective components: A large-scale internet-based cross-sectional study in Japan. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7649. [PMID: 38561418 PMCID: PMC10985089 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58340-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
Abstract
Pain is a global health problem that leads to sedentary behavior and tends to cause negative emotion. In contrast, exercise is widely recommended for a health promotion, while pain often worsens with physical activity. Although exercise therapy is often prescribed to people with pain, the mechanisms of exercise effect on pain remains unclear. In this study, we tried to identify a universal association factor between regular exercise and pain intensity utilizing a cross-sectional web-based survey involving 52,353 adult participants from a large national study conducted in Japan. Using principal component analysis, we uncovered a mediation model of exercise effect on pain through psychological components. Analyses were performed in half of the population with pain (n = 20,330) and validated in the other half (n = 20,330), and showed that high-frequency exercise had a significant association with reduction in pain intensity. We also found Negative Affect and Vigor, two psychological components, are fully associating the exercise effect on pain (indirect effect = - 0.032, p < 0.001; association proportion = 0.99) with a dose-dependent response corresponding to the frequency of exercise. These findings were successfully validated (indirect effect of high-frequency exercise = - 0.028, p < 0.001; association proportion = 0.85). Moreover, these findings were also identified in subpopulation analyses of people with low back, neck, knee pain, and the tendency of the exercise effect on pain was increased with older people. In conclusion, the effect of exercise on pain is associated with psychological components and these association effects increased in parallel with the frequency of exercise habit regardless pain location.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenta Wakaizumi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.
- Interdisciplinary Pain Center, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
- Interdisciplinary Pain Center, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
- Interdisciplinary Pain Center, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pain Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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- Division of Musculoskeletal AI System Development, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Pain Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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Baliki MN, Vigotsky AD, Rached G, Jabakhanji R, Huang L, Branco P, Cong O, Griffith J, Wasan AD, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Neuropsychology of chronic back pain managed with long-term opioid use. medRxiv 2024:2024.02.07.24302408. [PMID: 38370783 PMCID: PMC10871381 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.07.24302408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
Abstract
Chronic pain is commonly treated with long-term opioids, but the neuropsychological outcomes associated with stable long-duration opioid use remain unclear. Here, we contrasted the psychological profiles, brain activity, and brain structure of 70 chronic back pain patients on opioids (CBP+O, average opioid exposure 6.2 years) with 70 patients managing their pain without opioids. CBP+O exhibited moderately worse psychological profiles and small differences in brain morphology. However, CBP+O had starkly different spontaneous brain activity, dominated by increased mesocorticolimbic and decreased dorsolateral-prefrontal activity, even after controlling for pain intensity and duration. These differences strongly reflected cortical opioid and serotonin receptor densities and mapped to two antagonistic resting-state circuits. The circuits' dynamics were explained by mesocorticolimbic activity and reflected negative affect. We reassessed a sub-group of CBP+O after they briefly abstained from taking opioids. Network dynamics, but not spontaneous activity, reflected exacerbated signs of withdrawal. Our results have implications for the management and tapering of opioids in chronic pain.
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- Marwan N Baliki
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Biomedical Engineering and Statistics & Data Science, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Anesthesia, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Medical and Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Anesthesia, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Anesthesia, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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Wakaizumi K, Reckziegel D, Jabakhanji R, Apkarian AV, Baliki MN. Influence of exercise on pain is associated with resting-state functional connections: A cross-sectional functional brain imaging study. Neurobiology of Pain 2023; 13:100125. [PMID: 37025929 PMCID: PMC10070934 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2023.100125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2023] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
Abstract
Exercise is associated with lower prevalence and severity of pain, and is widely recommended for pain management. However, the mechanisms the exercise effect on pain remain unclear. In this study, we examined the association of exercise with pain and aimed to identify its neurobiological mediators. We utilized a baseline data of a clinical trial for people with low back pain. Participants reported pain intensity and exercise habit, as well as pain-related psychological and emotional assessments. We also obtained brain imaging data using a resting-state functional MRI and performed mediation analyses to identify brain regions mediating the exercise effect on pain. Forty-five people with low back pain (mean pain intensity = 59.6 and mean duration = 9.9 weeks) were included in this study. Participants with an exercise habit (n = 29) showed significant less pain compared to those without an exercise habit (n = 16). Mediation analysis using resting-state functional connectivity identified the left thalamus, right amygdala, and medial prefrontal cortex as statistical mediators of the exercise effect on pain (indirect effect = -0.460, 95% confidence interval = -0.767 to -0.153). In conclusion, our findings suggest that brain function of the specific regions is probably a neuro-mechanism of exercise alleviating pain.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenta Wakaizumi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
- Corresponding author at: Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
- Department of Anesthesia, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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Jabakhanji R, Vigotsky AD, Bielefeld J, Huang L, Baliki MN, Iannetti G, Apkarian AV. Limits of decoding mental states with fMRI. Cortex 2022; 149:101-122. [PMID: 35219121 PMCID: PMC9238276 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
A growing number of studies claim to decode mental states using multi-voxel decoders of brain activity. It has been proposed that the fixed, fine-grained, multi-voxel patterns in these decoders are necessary for discriminating between and identifying mental states. Here, we present evidence that the efficacy of these decoders might be overstated. Across various tasks, decoder patterns were spatially imprecise, as decoder performance was unaffected by spatial smoothing; 90% redundant, as selecting a random 10% of a decoder's constituent voxels recovered full decoder performance; and performed similarly to brain activity maps used as decoders. We distinguish decoder performance in discriminating between mental states from performance in identifying a given mental state, and show that even when discrimination performance is adequate, identification can be poor. Finally, we demonstrate that simple and intuitive similarity metrics explain 91% and 62% of discrimination performance within- and across-subjects, respectively. These findings indicate that currently used across-subject decoders of mental states are superfluous and inappropriate for decision-making.
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- Rami Jabakhanji
- Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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- Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, UK; Neuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; Center for Translational Pain Research, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.
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Smith LR, Pichika R, Meza RC, Gillies AR, Baliki MN, Chambers HG, Lieber RL. Contribution of extracellular matrix components to the stiffness of skeletal muscle contractures in patients with cerebral palsy. Connect Tissue Res 2021; 62:287-298. [PMID: 31779492 PMCID: PMC7253322 DOI: 10.1080/03008207.2019.1694011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
Purpose: Joint contractures in children with cerebral palsy contain muscle tissue that is mechanically stiffer with higher collagen content than typically developing children. Interestingly, the correlation between collagen content and stiffness is weak. To date, no data are available on collagen types or other extracellular matrix proteins in these muscles, nor any information regarding their function. Thus, our purpose was to measure specific extracellular protein composition in cerebral palsy and typically developing human muscles along with structural aspects of extracellular matrix architecture to determine the extent to which these explain mechanical properties. Materials and Methods: Biopsies were collected from children with cerebral palsy undergoing muscle lengthening procedures and typically developing children undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Tissue was prepared for the determination of collagen types I, III, IV, and VI, proteoglycan, biglycan, decorin, hyaluronic acid/uronic acid and collagen crosslinking. Results: All collagen types increased in cerebral palsy along with pyridinoline crosslinks, total proteoglycan, and uronic acid. In all cases, type I or total collagen and total proteoglycan were positive predictors, while biglycan was a negative predictor of stiffness. Together these parameters accounted for a greater degree of variance within groups than across groups, demonstrating an altered relationship between extracellular matrix and stiffness with cerebral palsy. Further, stereological analysis revealed a significant increase in collagen fibrils organized in cables and an increased volume fraction of fibroblasts in CP muscle. Conclusions: These data demonstrate a novel adaptation of muscle extracellular matrix in children with cerebral palsy that includes alterations in extracellular matrix protein composition and structure related to mechanical function.
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- Lucas R. Smith
- Departments of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Diego,La Jolla, CA, 92093-0863, USA,Department of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Diego,La Jolla, CA, 92093-0863, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Diego,La Jolla, CA, 92093-0863, USA,Hines V.A. Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA
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Wakaizumi K, Vigotsky AD, Jabakhanji R, Abdallah M, Barroso J, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV, Baliki MN. Psychosocial, Functional, and Emotional Correlates of Long-Term Opioid Use in Patients with Chronic Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study. Pain Ther 2021; 10:691-709. [PMID: 33844170 PMCID: PMC8119524 DOI: 10.1007/s40122-021-00257-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The opiate epidemic has severe medical and social consequences. Opioids are commonly prescribed in patients with chronic pain, and are a main contributor to the opiate epidemic. The adverse effects of long-term opioid usage have been studied primarily in dependence/addiction disorders, but not in chronic pain. Here, we examine the added iatrogenic effects, psychology, and brain morphology of long-term opioid use in matched patients with chronic pain with and without opioid use (case-controlled design). METHODS We compared psychosocial, functional, and psychological measures between patients with chronic back pain (CBP) who were managing their pain with or without opioids, thereby controlling for the effect of pain on these outcomes. In addition, we investigated brain morphological differences associated with long-term opioid usage. We recruited 58 patients with CBP, 29 of them on long-term opioids and 29 who did not use opioids, and who were matched in terms of age, sex, pain intensity, and pain duration. Questionnaires were used to assess pain quality, pain psychology, negative and positive emotions, physical, cognitive, sensory, and motor functions, quality of life, and personality traits. RESULTS Patients with CBP on opioids displayed more negative emotion, poorer physical function, and more pain interference (p < 0.001), whereas there were no statistical differences in cognitive and motor functions and personality traits. Voxel-based morphometry using structural brain imaging data identified decreased gray matter density of the dorsal paracingulate cortex (family-wise error-corrected p < 0.05) in patients with opioids, which was associated with negative emotion (p = 0.03). Finally, a volumetric analysis of hippocampal subfields identified lower volume of the left presubiculum in patients on opioids (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION Long-term opioid use in chronic pain is associated with adverse negative emotion and disabilities, as well as decreased gray matter volumes of specific brain regions.
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- Kenta Wakaizumi
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA.,Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA.,Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA.,Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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- Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA. .,Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA. .,Department of Anesthesia, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Tarry Bldg. 7-705, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA. .,Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 355 East Erie St, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. .,Center for Translational Pain Research, and Center of Excellence for Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA.
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Yang L, Wu B, Fan L, Huang S, Vigotsky AD, Baliki MN, Yan Z, Apkarian AV, Huang L. Dissimilarity of functional connectivity uncovers the influence of participant's motion in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 42:713-723. [PMID: 33079467 PMCID: PMC7814752 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Head motion is a major confounding factor impairing the quality of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. In particular, head motion can reduce analytical efficiency, and its effects are still present even after preprocessing. To examine the validity of motion removal and to evaluate the remaining effects of motion on the quality of the preprocessed fMRI data, a new metric of group quality control (QC), dissimilarity of functional connectivity, is introduced. Here, we investigate the association between head motion, represented by mean framewise displacement, and dissimilarity of functional connectivity by applying four preprocessing methods in two independent resting‐state fMRI datasets: one consisting of healthy participants (N = 167) scanned in a 3T GE‐Discovery 750 with longer TR (2.5 s), and the other of chronic back pain patients (N = 143) in a 3T Siemens Magnetom Prisma scanner with shorter TR (0.555 s). We found that dissimilarity of functional connectivity uncovers the influence of participant's motion, and this relationship is independent of population, scanner, and preprocessing method. The association between motion and dissimilarity of functional connectivity, and how the removal of high‐motion participants affects this association, is a new strategy for group‐level QC following preprocessing.
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- Lili Yang
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Information, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Physical Management and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Wakaizumi K, Jabakhanji R, Ihara N, Kosugi S, Terasawa Y, Morisaki H, Ogaki M, Baliki MN. Altered functional connectivity associated with time discounting in chronic pain. Sci Rep 2019; 9:8154. [PMID: 31148557 PMCID: PMC6544657 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44497-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Chronic pain (CP) is a global problem extensively associated with an unhealthy lifestyle. Time discounting (TD), a tendency to assign less value to future gains than to present gains, is an indicator of the unhealthy behaviors. While, recent neuroimaging studies implied overlapping neuro mechanisms underlying CP and TD, little is known about the specific relationship between CP and TD in behavior or neuroscience. As such, we investigated the association of TD with behavioral measures in CP and resting-state brain functional network in both CP patients and healthy subjects. Behaviorally, TD showed a significant correlation with meaningfulness in healthy subjects, whereas TD in patients only correlated with pain intensity. We identified a specific network including medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in default mode network (DMN) associated with TD in healthy subjects that showed significant indirect mediation effect of meaningfulness on TD. In contrast, TD in patients was correlated with functional connectivity between dorsolateral PFC (DLPFC) and temporal lobe that mediated the effect of pain intensity on TD in patients. These results imply that TD is modulated by pain intensity in CP patients, and the brain function associated to TD is shifted from a medial to lateral representation within the frontal regions.
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- Kenta Wakaizumi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. .,Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. .,Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, USA. .,Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Baliki MN, Babbitt EM, Cherney LR. Brain network topology influences response to intensive comprehensive aphasia treatment. NeuroRehabilitation 2018; 43:63-76. [DOI: 10.3233/nre-182428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Marwan N. Baliki
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Tétreault P, Baliki MN, Baria AT, Bauer WR, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Inferring distinct mechanisms in the absence of subjective differences: Placebo and centrally acting analgesic underlie unique brain adaptations. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:2210-2223. [PMID: 29417694 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Revised: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Development and maintenance of chronic pain is associated with structural and functional brain reorganization. However, few studies have explored the impact of drug treatments on such changes. The extent to which long-term analgesia is related to brain adaptations and its effects on the reversibility of brain reorganization remain unclear. In a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial, we contrasted pain relief (3-month treatment period), and anatomical (gray matter density [GMD], assessed by voxel-based morphometry) and functional connectivity (resting state fMRI nodal degree count [DC]) adaptations, in 39 knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients (22 females), randomized to duloxetine (DLX, 60 mg once daily) or placebo. Pain relief was equivalent between treatment types. However, distinct circuitry (GMD and DC) could explain pain relief in each group: up to 85% of variance for placebo analgesia and 49% of variance for DLX analgesia. No behavioral measures (collected at entry into the study) could independently explain observed analgesia. Identified circuitry were outside of nociceptive circuitry and minimally overlapped with OA-abnormal or placebo response predictive brain regions. Mediation analysis revealed that changes in GMD and DC can influence each other across remote brain regions to explain observed analgesia. Therefore, we can conclude that distinct brain mechanisms underlie DLX and placebo analgesia in OA. The results demonstrate that even in the absence of differences in subjective pain relief, pharmacological treatments can be differentiated from placebo based on objective brain biomarkers. This is a crucial step to untangling mechanisms and advancing personalized therapy approaches for chronic pain.
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- Pascal Tétreault
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611.,Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 43614-2598
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- Department of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611.,Anesthesiology Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 60611
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Tétreault P, Mansour A, Vachon-Presseau E, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV, Baliki MN. Brain Connectivity Predicts Placebo Response across Chronic Pain Clinical Trials. PLoS Biol 2016; 14:e1002570. [PMID: 27788130 PMCID: PMC5082893 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Placebo response in the clinical trial setting is poorly understood and alleged to be driven by statistical confounds, and its biological underpinnings are questioned. Here we identified and validated that clinical placebo response is predictable from resting-state functional magnetic-resonance-imaging (fMRI) brain connectivity. This also led to discovering a brain region predicting active drug response and demonstrating the adverse effect of active drug interfering with placebo analgesia. Chronic knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain patients (n = 56) underwent pretreatment brain scans in two clinical trials. Study 1 (n = 17) was a 2-wk single-blinded placebo pill trial. Study 2 (n = 39) was a 3-mo double-blinded randomized trial comparing placebo pill to duloxetine. Study 3, which was conducted in additional knee OA pain patients (n = 42), was observational. fMRI-derived brain connectivity maps in study 1 were contrasted between placebo responders and nonresponders and compared to healthy controls (n = 20). Study 2 validated the primary biomarker and identified a brain region predicting drug response. In both studies, approximately half of the participants exhibited analgesia with placebo treatment. In study 1, right midfrontal gyrus connectivity best identified placebo responders. In study 2, the same measure identified placebo responders (95% correct) and predicted the magnitude of placebo's effectiveness. By subtracting away linearly modeled placebo analgesia from duloxetine response, we uncovered in 6/19 participants a tendency of duloxetine enhancing predicted placebo response, while in another 6/19, we uncovered a tendency for duloxetine to diminish it. Moreover, the approach led to discovering that right parahippocampus gyrus connectivity predicts drug analgesia after correcting for modeled placebo-related analgesia. Our evidence is consistent with clinical placebo response having biological underpinnings and shows that the method can also reveal that active treatment in some patients diminishes modeled placebo-related analgesia. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02903238 ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01558700.
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- Pascal Tétreault
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Anesthesia, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AVA); (MNB)
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Rehabilitation Institution of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AVA); (MNB)
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Mansour A, Baria AT, Tetreault P, Vachon-Presseau E, Chang PC, Huang L, Apkarian AV, Baliki MN. Global disruption of degree rank order: a hallmark of chronic pain. Sci Rep 2016; 6:34853. [PMID: 27725689 PMCID: PMC5057075 DOI: 10.1038/srep34853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Chronic pain remains poorly understood; yet it is associated with the reorganization of the nervous system. Here, we demonstrate that a unitary global measure of functional connectivity, defined as the extent of degree rank order disruption, kD, identifies the chronic pain state. In contrast, local degree disruption differentiates between chronic pain conditions. We used resting-state functional MRI data to analyze the brain connectome at varying scales and densities. In three chronic pain conditions, we observe disrupted kD, in proportion to individuals' pain intensity, and associated with community membership disruption. Additionally, we observe regional degree changes, some of which were unique to each type of chronic pain. Subjects with recent onset of back pain exhibited emergence of kD only when the pain became chronic. Similarly, in neuropathic rats kD emerged weeks after injury, in proportion to pain-like behavior. Thus, we found comprehensive cross-species evidence for chronic pain being a state of global randomization of functional connectivity.
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- Ali Mansour
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Vachon-Presseau E, Tétreault P, Petre B, Huang L, Berger SE, Torbey S, Baria AT, Mansour AR, Hashmi JA, Griffith JW, Comasco E, Schnitzer TJ, Baliki MN, Apkarian AV. Corticolimbic anatomical characteristics predetermine risk for chronic pain. Brain 2016; 139:1958-70. [PMID: 27190016 DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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SEE TRACEY DOI101093/BRAIN/AWW147 FOR A SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: Mechanisms of chronic pain remain poorly understood. We tracked brain properties in subacute back pain patients longitudinally for 3 years as they either recovered from or transitioned to chronic pain. Whole-brain comparisons indicated corticolimbic, but not pain-related circuitry, white matter connections predisposed patients to chronic pain. Intra-corticolimbic white matter connectivity analysis identified three segregated communities: dorsal medial prefrontal cortex-amygdala-accumbens, ventral medial prefrontal cortex-amygdala, and orbitofrontal cortex-amygdala-hippocampus. Higher incidence of white matter and functional connections within the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex-amygdala-accumbens circuit, as well as smaller amygdala volume, represented independent risk factors, together accounting for 60% of the variance for pain persistence. Opioid gene polymorphisms and negative mood contributed indirectly through corticolimbic anatomical factors, to risk for chronic pain. Our results imply that persistence of chronic pain is predetermined by corticolimbic neuroanatomical factors.
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- Etienne Vachon-Presseau
- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 2 Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia , 2955 Ivy Rd, Suite 210, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 3 Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2
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- 4 Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 5 Department of Neuroscience, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, BMC, Pob 593, 75124, Uppsala, Sweden
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- 6 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Room 1020, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA 7 Rehabilitation Istitute of Chicago, 345 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- 1 Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Vachon-Presseau E, Centeno MV, Ren W, Berger SE, Tétreault P, Ghantous M, Baria A, Farmer M, Baliki MN, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. The Emotional Brain as a Predictor and Amplifier of Chronic Pain. J Dent Res 2016; 95:605-12. [PMID: 26965423 DOI: 10.1177/0022034516638027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Human neuroimaging studies and complementary animal experiments now identify the gross elements of the brain involved in the chronification of pain. We briefly review these advances in relation to somatic and orofacial persistent pain conditions. First, we emphasize the importance of reverse translational research for understanding chronic pain-that is, the power of deriving hypotheses directly from human brain imaging of clinical conditions that can be invasively and mechanistically studied in animal models. We then review recent findings demonstrating the importance of the emotional brain (i.e., the corticolimbic system) in the modulation of acute pain and in the prediction and amplification of chronic pain, contrasting this evidence with recent findings regarding the role of central sensitization in pain chronification, especially for orofacial pain. We next elaborate on the corticolimbic circuitry and underlying mechanisms that determine the transition to chronic pain. Given this knowledge, we advance a new mechanistic definition of chronic pain and discuss the clinical implications of this new definition as well as novel therapeutic potentials suggested by these advances.
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- E Vachon-Presseau
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that the brain adapts with pain, as well as imparts risk for developing chronic pain. Within this context, we revisit the concepts for nociception, acute and chronic pain, and negative moods relative to behavior selection. We redefine nociception as the mechanism protecting the organism from injury, while acute pain as failure of avoidant behavior, and a mesolimbic threshold process that gates the transformation of nociceptive activity to conscious pain. Adaptations in this threshold process are envisioned to be critical for development of chronic pain. We deconstruct chronic pain into four distinct phases, each with specific mechanisms, and outline current state of knowledge regarding these mechanisms: the limbic brain imparting risk, and the mesolimbic learning processes reorganizing the neocortex into a chronic pain state. Moreover, pain and negative moods are envisioned as a continuum of aversive behavioral learning, which enhance survival by protecting against threats.
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- Marwan N Baliki
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60610, USA.
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60610, USA; Department of Anesthesia, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60610, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60610, USA.
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Baliki MN, Chang PC, Baria AT, Centeno MV, Apkarian AV. CORRIGENDUM: Resting-state functional reorganization of the rat limbic system following neuropathic injury. Sci Rep 2015; 5:7603. [PMID: 25612839 PMCID: PMC4303879 DOI: 10.1038/srep07603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Berger SE, Baria AT, Baliki MN, Mansour A, Herrmann KM, Torbey S, Huang L, Parks EL, Schnizter TJ, Apkarian AV. Risky monetary behavior in chronic back pain is associated with altered modular connectivity of the nucleus accumbens. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:739. [PMID: 25331931 PMCID: PMC4210520 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The nucleus accumbens (NAc) has a well established role in reward processing. Yet, there is growing evidence showing that NAc function, and its connections to other parts of the brain, is also critically involved in the emergence of chronic back pain (CBP). Pain patients are known to perform abnormally in reward-related tasks, which suggests an intriguing link between pain, NAc connectivity, and reward behavior. In the present study, we compared performance on a gambling task (indicating willingness to risk losing money) between healthy pain-free controls (CON) and individuals with CBP. We then measured modular connectivity of each participants’ NAc with resting state functional MRI to investigate how connectivity accounts for reward behavior in the presence and absence of pain. Results We found gain sensitivity was significantly higher in CBP patients. These scores were significantly correlated to connectivity within the NAc module defined by CON subjects ( which had strong connections to the frontal cortex), but not within that defined by CBP patients ( which was more strongly connected to subcortical areas). An important part of our study was based on the precedence that a range of behaviors, from simple to complex, can be predicted from brain activity during rest. Thus, to corroborate our results we compared them closely to an independent study correlating the same connectivity metric to impulsive behaviors in healthy participants. We found that our CBP patients were highly similarin connectivity to this study’s highly-impulsive healthy subjects, strengthening the notion that there is an important link between the brain systems that support chronic pain and reward processing. Conclusions Our results support previous findings that chronic back pain is accompanied by altered connectivity of the NAc. This lends itself to riskier behavior in these patients, a finding which establishes a potential cognitive consequence or co-morbidity of long-term pain and provides a behavioral link to growing research showing that chronic pain is related to abnormal changes in the dopaminergic system.
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 300 E, Superior St, 60611 Chicago, IL, USA.
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Petre B, Torbey S, Griffith JW, De Oliveira G, Herrmann K, Mansour A, Baria AT, Baliki MN, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Smoking increases risk of pain chronification through shared corticostriatal circuitry. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 36:683-94. [PMID: 25307796 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Revised: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Smoking is associated with increased incidence of chronic pain. However, the evidence is cross-sectional in nature, and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In a longitudinal observational study, we examined the relationship between smoking, transition to chronic pain, and brain physiology. In 160 subjects with subacute back pain (SBP: back pain lasting 4-12 weeks, and no prior back pain [BP] for at least 1 year) pain characteristics, smoking status, and brain functional properties were measured repeatedly over 1 year. Sixty-eight completed the study, subdivided into recovering (SBPr, n = 31) and persisting (SBPp, n = 37), based on >20% decrease in BP over the year. Thirty-two chronic back pain (CBP: duration > 5 years) and 35 healthy controls were similarly monitored. Smoking prevalence was higher in SBP and CBP but not related to intensity of BP. In SBP, smoking status at baseline was predictive of persistence of BP 1 year from symptom onset (differentiating SBPp and SBPr with 0.62 accuracy). Smoking status combined with affective properties of pain and medication use improved prediction accuracy (0.82). Mediation analysis indicated the prediction of BP persistence by smoking was largely due to synchrony of fMRI activity between two brain areas (nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex, NAc-mPFC). In SBP or CBP who ceased smoking strength of NAc-mPFC decreased from precessation to postcessation of smoking. We conclude that smoking increases risk of transitioning to CBP, an effect mediated by corticostriatal circuitry involved in addictive behavior and motivated learning.
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- Bogdan Petre
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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Based on theoretical considerations and recent observations, we argue that continued suffering of chronic pain is critically dependent on the state of motivational and emotional mesolimbic-prefrontal circuitry of the brain. The plastic changes that occur within this circuitry in relation to nociceptive inputs dictate the transition to chronic pain, rendering the pain less somatic and more affective in nature. This theoretical construct is a strong departure from the traditional scientific view of pain, which has focused on encoding and representation of nociceptive signals. We argue that the definition of chronic pain can be recast, within the associative learning and valuation concept, as an inability to extinguish the associated memory trace, implying that supraspinal/cortical manipulations may be a more fruitful venue for adequately modulating suffering and related behavior for chronic pain. We briefly review the evidence generated to date for the proposed model and emphasize that the details of underlying mechanisms remain to be expounded.
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- A R Mansour
- Department of Physiology, Surgery, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Physiology, Surgery, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Physiology, Surgery, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Physiology, Surgery, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois Department of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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Baliki MN, Mansour AR, Baria AT, Apkarian AV. Functional reorganization of the default mode network across chronic pain conditions. PLoS One 2014; 9:e106133. [PMID: 25180885 PMCID: PMC4152156 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Accepted: 08/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Chronic pain is associated with neuronal plasticity. Here we use resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate functional changes in patients suffering from chronic back pain (CBP), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and knee osteoarthritis (OA). We isolated five meaningful resting-state networks across the groups, of which only the default mode network (DMN) exhibited deviations from healthy controls. All patient groups showed decreased connectivity of medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) to the posterior constituents of the DMN, and increased connectivity to the insular cortex in proportion to the intensity of pain. Multiple DMN regions, especially the MPFC, exhibited increased high frequency oscillations, conjoined with decreased phase locking with parietal regions involved in processing attention. Both phase and frequency changes correlated to pain duration in OA and CBP patients. Thus chronic pain seems to reorganize the dynamics of the DMN and as such reflect the maladaptive physiology of different types of chronic pain.
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- Marwan N. Baliki
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Anesthesia, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Mansour AR, Baliki MN, Huang L, Torbey S, Herrmann KM, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian VA. Brain white matter structural properties predict transition to chronic pain. Pain 2014; 154:2160-2168. [PMID: 24040975 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Revised: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Neural mechanisms mediating the transition from acute to chronic pain remain largely unknown. In a longitudinal brain imaging study, we followed up patients with a single sub-acute back pain (SBP) episode for more than 1 year as their pain recovered (SBPr), or persisted (SBPp) representing a transition to chronic pain. We discovered brain white matter structural abnormalities (n=24 SBP patients; SBPp=12 and SBPr=12), as measured by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), at entry into the study in SBPp in comparison to SBPr. These white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) differences accurately predicted pain persistence over the next year, which was validated in a second cohort (n=22 SBP patients; SBPp=11 and SBPr=11), and showed no further alterations over a 1-year period. Tractography analysis indicated that abnormal regional FA was linked to differential structural connectivity to medial vs lateral prefrontal cortex. Local FA was correlated with functional connectivity between medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in SBPr. As we have earlier shown that the latter functional connectivity accurately predicts transition to chronic pain, we can conclude that brain structural differences, most likely existing before the back pain-inciting event and independent of the back pain, predispose subjects to pain chronification.
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- Ali R Mansour
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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Mutso AA, Petre B, Huang L, Baliki MN, Torbey S, Herrmann KM, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Reorganization of hippocampal functional connectivity with transition to chronic back pain. J Neurophysiol 2013; 111:1065-76. [PMID: 24335219 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00611.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The hippocampus has been shown to undergo significant changes in rodent models of neuropathic pain; however, the role of the hippocampus in human chronic pain and its contribution to pain chronification have remained unexplored. Here we examine hippocampal processing during a simple visual attention task. We used functional MRI to identify intrinsic and extrinsic hippocampal functional connectivity (synchronous neural activity), comparing subacute back pain (SBP, back pain 1-4 mo) and chronic back pain (CBP, back pain >10 yr) patients to control (CON) subjects. Both groups showed more extensive hippocampal connectivity than CON subjects. We then examined the evolution of hippocampal connectivity longitudinally in SBP patients who recovered (SBPr, back pain decreased >20% in 1 yr) and those with persistent pain (SBPp). We found that SBPp and SBPr subjects have distinct changes in hippocampal-cortical connectivity over 1 yr; specifically, SBPp subjects showed large decreases in hippocampal connectivity with medial prefrontal cortex (HG-mPFC). Furthermore, in SBP patients the strength of HG-mPFC reflected variations in back pain over the year. These relationships were replicated when examined in a different task performed by SBP patients (rating fluctuations of back pain), indicating that functional connectivity of the hippocampus changes robustly in subacute pain and the nature of these changes depends on whether or not patients recover from SBP. The observed reorganization of processing within the hippocampus and between the hippocampus and the cortex seems to contribute to the transition from subacute to chronic pain and may also underlie learning and emotional abnormalities associated with chronic pain.
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- Amelia A Mutso
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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Hashmi JA, Baliki MN, Huang L, Baria AT, Torbey S, Hermann KM, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 136:2751-68. [PMID: 23983029 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 480] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Chronic pain conditions are associated with abnormalities in brain structure and function. Moreover, some studies indicate that brain activity related to the subjective perception of chronic pain may be distinct from activity for acute pain. However, the latter are based on observations from cross-sectional studies. How brain activity reorganizes with transition from acute to chronic pain has remained unexplored. Here we study this transition by examining brain activity for rating fluctuations of back pain magnitude. First we compared back pain-related brain activity between subjects who have had the condition for ∼2 months with no prior history of back pain for 1 year (early, acute/subacute back pain group, n = 94), to subjects who have lived with back pain for >10 years (chronic back pain group, n = 59). In a subset of subacute back pain patients, we followed brain activity for back pain longitudinally over a 1-year period, and compared brain activity between those who recover (recovered acute/sub-acute back pain group, n = 19) and those in which the back pain persists (persistent acute/sub-acute back pain group, n = 20; based on a 20% decrease in intensity of back pain in 1 year). We report results in relation to meta-analytic probabilistic maps related to the terms pain, emotion, and reward (each map is based on >200 brain imaging studies, derived from neurosynth.org). We observed that brain activity for back pain in the early, acute/subacute back pain group is limited to regions involved in acute pain, whereas in the chronic back pain group, activity is confined to emotion-related circuitry. Reward circuitry was equally represented in both groups. In the recovered acute/subacute back pain group, brain activity diminished in time, whereas in the persistent acute/subacute back pain group, activity diminished in acute pain regions, increased in emotion-related circuitry, and remained unchanged in reward circuitry. The results demonstrate that brain representation for a constant percept, back pain, can undergo large-scale shifts in brain activity with the transition to chronic pain. These observations challenge long-standing theoretical concepts regarding brain and mind relationships, as well as provide important novel insights regarding definitions and mechanisms of chronic pain.
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- Javeria A Hashmi
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Huang L, Wang X, Baliki MN, Wang L, Apkarian AV, Parrish TB. Reproducibility of structural, resting-state BOLD and DTI data between identical scanners. PLoS One 2012; 7:e47684. [PMID: 23133518 PMCID: PMC3485040 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Increasingly, clinical trials based on brain imaging are adopting multiple sites/centers to increase their subject pool and to expedite the studies, and more longitudinal studies are using multiple imaging methods to assess structural and functional changes. Careful investigation of the test-retest reliability and image quality of inter- or intra- scanner neuroimaging measurements are critical in the design, statistical analysis and interpretation of results. We propose a framework and specific metrics to quantify the reproducibility and image quality for neuroimaging studies (structural, BOLD and Diffusion Tensor Imaging) collected across identical scanners and following a major hardware repair (gradient coil replacement). We achieved consistent measures for the proposed metrics: structural (mean volume in specific regions and stretch factor), functional (temporal Signal-to-Noise ratio), diffusion (mean Fractional Anisotropy and Mean Diffusivity in multiple regions). The proposed frame work of imaging metrics should be used to perform daily quality assurance testing and incorporated into multi-center studies.
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- Lejian Huang
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- * E-mail: (TBP); (AVA); (LW)
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- * E-mail: (TBP); (AVA); (LW)
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- Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- * E-mail: (TBP); (AVA); (LW)
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Hashmi JA, Baria AT, Baliki MN, Huang L, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian VA. Brain networks predicting placebo analgesia in a clinical trial for chronic back pain. Pain 2012; 153:2393-2402. [PMID: 22985900 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2012] [Revised: 07/26/2012] [Accepted: 08/10/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A fundamental question for placebo research is whether such responses are a predisposition, quantifiable by brain characteristics. We examine this issue in chronic back pain (CBP) patients who participated in a double-blind brain imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) clinical trial. We recently reported that when the 30 CBP participants were treated, for 2 weeks, with topical analgesic or no drug patches, pain and brain activity decreased independently of treatment type and thus were attributed to placebo responses. Here we examine in the same group brain markers for predicting placebo responses--that is, for differentiating between posttreatment persistent CBP (CBPp) and decreasing CBP (CBPd) groups. At baseline, pain and brain activity for rating spontaneous fluctuations of back pain were not different between the 2 groups. However, on the basis of brain activity differences after treatment, we identified that at baseline the extent of information shared (functional connectivity) between left medial prefrontal cortex and bilateral insula accurately (0.8) predicted posttreatment groups. This was validated in an independent cohort. Additionally, by means of frequency domain contrasts, we observe that at baseline, left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex high-frequency oscillations also predicted treatment outcomes and identified an additional set of functional connections distinguishing treatment outcomes. Combining medial and lateral prefrontal functional connections, we observe a statistically higher accuracy (0.9) for predicting posttreatment groups. These findings indicate that placebo response can be identified a priori at least in CBP, and that neuronal population interactions between prefrontal cognitive and pain processing regions predetermine the probability of placebo response in the clinical setting.
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- Javeria A Hashmi
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA Department of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Farmer MA, Baliki MN, Apkarian AV. A dynamic network perspective of chronic pain. Neurosci Lett 2012; 520:197-203. [PMID: 22579823 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Revised: 04/28/2012] [Accepted: 05/01/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We briefly summarize recent advances regarding brain functional representation of chronic pain, reorganization of resting state brain activity, and of brain anatomy with chronic pain. Based on these observations and recent theoretical advances regarding network architecture properties, we develop a general concept of the dynamic interplay between anatomy and function as the brain progresses into persistent pain, and outline the role of mesolimbic learning mechanisms that are likely involved in maintenance of chronic pain.
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- Melissa A Farmer
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Hashmi JA, Baliki MN, Huang L, Parks EL, Chanda ML, Schnitzer T, Apkarian AV. Lidocaine patch (5%) is no more potent than placebo in treating chronic back pain when tested in a randomised double blind placebo controlled brain imaging study. Mol Pain 2012; 8:29. [PMID: 22531485 PMCID: PMC3475108 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-8-29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Accepted: 04/24/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background The 5% Lidocaine patch is used for treating chronic neuropathic pain conditions such as chronic back pain (CBP), diabetic neuropathy and complex regional pain syndrome, but is effective in a variable proportion of patients. Our lab has reported that this treatment reduces CBP intensity and associated brain activations when tested in an open labelled preliminary study. Notably, effectiveness of the 5% Lidocaine patch has not been tested against placebo for treating CBP. In this study, effectiveness of the 5% Lidocaine patch was compared with placebo in 30 CBP patients in a randomised double-blind study where 15 patients received 5% Lidocaine patches and the remaining patients received placebo patches. Functional MRI was used to identify brain activity for fluctuations of spontaneous pain, at baseline and at two time points after start of treatment (6 hours and 2 weeks). Results There was no significant difference between the treatment groups in either pain intensity, sensory and affective qualities of pain or in pain related brain activation at any time point. However, 50% patients in both the Lidocaine and placebo arms reported a greater than 50% decrease in pain suggesting a marked placebo effect. When tested against an untreated CBP group at similar time points, the patch treated subjects showed significantly greater decrease in pain compared to the untreated group (n = 15). Conclusions These findings suggest that although the 5% Lidocaine is not better than placebo in its effectiveness for treating pain, the patch itself induces a potent placebo effect in a significant proportion of CBP patients.
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- Javeria A Hashmi
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Chronic pain can be understood not only as an altered functional state, but also as a consequence of neuronal plasticity. Here we use in vivo structural MRI to compare global, local, and architectural changes in gray matter properties in patients suffering from chronic back pain (CBP), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and knee osteoarthritis (OA), relative to healthy controls. We find that different chronic pain types exhibit unique anatomical ‘brain signatures’. Only the CBP group showed altered whole-brain gray matter volume, while regional gray matter density was distinct for each group. Voxel-wise comparison of gray matter density showed that the impact on the extent of chronicity of pain was localized to a common set of regions across all conditions. When gray matter density was examined for large regions approximating Brodmann areas, it exhibited unique large-scale distributed networks for each group. We derived a barcode, summarized by a single index of within-subject co-variation of gray matter density, which enabled classification of individual brains to their conditions with high accuracy. This index also enabled calculating time constants and asymptotic amplitudes for an exponential increase in brain re-organization with pain chronicity, and showed that brain reorganization with pain chronicity was 6 times slower and twice as large in CBP in comparison to CRPS. The results show an exuberance of brain anatomical reorganization peculiar to each condition and as such reflecting the unique maladaptive physiology of different types of chronic pain.
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- Marwan N. Baliki
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Anesthesia, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Parks EL, Geha PY, Baliki MN, Katz J, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. Brain activity for chronic knee osteoarthritis: dissociating evoked pain from spontaneous pain. Eur J Pain 2011; 15:843.e1-14. [PMID: 21315627 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2010] [Revised: 11/24/2010] [Accepted: 12/20/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Chronic pain is a hallmark of osteoarthritis (OA), yet little is known about its properties and representation in the brain. Here we use fMRI combined with psychophysics to study knee pain in fourteen OA patients and nine healthy controls. Mechanical painful pressure stimuli were applied to the knee in both groups and ratings of evoked pain and related brain activity examined. We observe that psychophysical properties and brain activation patterns of evoked pain are essentially the same between OA patients and healthy subjects, and between worse and better OA knees. In OA patients, stimulus-related brain activity could be distinguished from brain activity associated with spontaneous pain. The former activated brain regions commonly observed for acute painful stimuli in healthy subjects, while the spontaneous pain of OA engaged prefrontal-limbic regions closely corresponding to areas observed for spontaneous pain in other chronic pain conditions, such as chronic back pain and post-herpetic neuralgia. Arthritis-related clinical characteristics of knee OA also mapped to prefrontal-limbic regions. In a subgroup of patients (n=6) we examined brain activity changes for a 2-week, repeat measure, cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor (valdecoxib) therapy. Treatment decreased spontaneous pain for the worse knee and clinical characteristics of OA, and increased blood and csf levels of the drug which correlated positively with prefrontal-limbic brain activity. These findings indicate dissociation between mechanically induced and spontaneous OA knee pain, the latter engaging brain regions involved in emotional assessment of the self, and challenge the standard clinical view regarding the nature of OA pain.
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- Elle L Parks
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Apkarian VA, Hashmi JA, Baliki MN. Pain and the brain: specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain. Pain 2010; 152:S49-S64. [PMID: 21146929 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 480] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Vania A Apkarian
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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Rish I, Cecchi GA, Baliki MN, Apkarian AV. Sparse Regression Models of Pain Perception. Brain Inform 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15314-3_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Parks EL, Baliki MN, Geha PY, Apkarian AV. Pressure-induced pain perception in knee osteoarthritis: psychophysics and related brain activity. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)70299-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Apkarian AV, Geha PY, Parks EL, Baliki MN. Different clinical chronic pain conditions activate the cortex in unique patterns. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)70623-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In this review, we integrate recent human and animal studies from the viewpoint of chronic pain. First, we briefly review the impact of chronic pain on society and address current pitfalls of its definition and clinical management. Second, we examine pain mechanisms via nociceptive information transmission cephalad and its impact and interaction with the cortex. Third, we present recent discoveries on the active role of the cortex in chronic pain, with findings indicating that the human cortex continuously reorganizes as it lives in chronic pain. We also introduce data emphasizing that distinct chronic pain conditions impact on the cortex in unique patterns. Fourth, animal studies regarding nociceptive transmission, recent evidence for supraspinal reorganization during pain, the necessity of descending modulation for maintenance of neuropathic behavior, and the impact of cortical manipulations on neuropathic pain is also reviewed. We further expound on the notion that chronic pain can be reformulated within the context of learning and memory, and demonstrate the relevance of the idea in the design of novel pharmacotherapies. Lastly, we integrate the human and animal data into a unified working model outlining the mechanism by which acute pain transitions into a chronic state. It incorporates knowledge of underlying brain structures and their reorganization, and also includes specific variations as a function of pain persistence and injury type, thereby providing mechanistic descriptions of several unique chronic pain conditions within a single model.
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- A Vania Apkarian
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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Geha PY, Baliki MN, Harden RN, Bauer WR, Parrish TB, Apkarian AV. The brain in chronic CRPS pain: abnormal gray-white matter interactions in emotional and autonomic regions. Neuron 2009; 60:570-81. [PMID: 19038215 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2008] [Revised: 08/12/2008] [Accepted: 08/15/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Chronic complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating pain condition accompanied by autonomic abnormalities. We investigated gray matter morphometry and white matter anisotropy in CRPS patients and matched controls. Patients exhibited a disrupted relationship between white matter anisotropy and whole-brain gray matter volume; gray matter atrophy in a single cluster encompassing right insula, right ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), and right nucleus accumbens; and a decrease in fractional anisotropy in the left cingulum-callosal bundle. Reorganization of white matter connectivity in these regions was characterized by branching pattern alterations, as well as increased (VMPFC to insula) and decreased (VMPFC to basal ganglion) connectivity. While regional atrophy differentially related to pain intensity and duration, the strength of connectivity between specific atrophied regions related to anxiety. These abnormalities encompass emotional, autonomic, and pain perception regions, implying that they likely play a critical role in the global clinical picture of CRPS.
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- Paul Y Geha
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Baliki MN, Geha PY, Apkarian AV. Parsing pain perception between nociceptive representation and magnitude estimation. J Neurophysiol 2008; 101:875-87. [PMID: 19073802 DOI: 10.1152/jn.91100.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Assessing the size of objects rapidly and accurately clearly has survival value. A central multisensory module for subjective magnitude assessment is therefore highly likely, suggested by psychophysical studies, and proposed on theoretical grounds. Given that pain perception is fundamentally an assessment of stimulus intensity, it must necessarily engage such a central module. Accordingly, we compared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity of pain magnitude ratings to matched visual magnitude ratings in 14 subjects. We show that brain activations segregate into two groups, one preferentially activated for pain and another equally activated for both visual and pain magnitude ratings. The properties of regions in the first group were consistent with encoding nociception, whereas those in the second group with attention and task control. Insular cortex responses similarly segregated to a pain-specific area and an area (extending to the lateral prefrontal cortex) conjointly representing perceived magnitudes for pain and vision. These two insular areas were differentiated by their relationship to task variance, ability to encode perceived magnitudes for each stimulus epoch, temporal delay differences, and brain intrinsic functional connectivity. In a second group of subjects (n=11) we contrasted diffusion tensor imaging-based white matter connectivity for these two insular areas and observed anatomical connectivity closely corresponding to the functional connectivity identified with fMRI. These results demonstrate that pain perception is due to the transformation of nociceptive representation into subjective magnitude assessment within the insula. Moreover, we argue that we have identified a multisensory cortical area for "how much" complementary and analogous to the "where" and "what" as described for central visual processing.
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- M N Baliki
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Baliki MN, Geha PY, Jabakhanji R, Harden N, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV. A preliminary fMRI study of analgesic treatment in chronic back pain and knee osteoarthritis. Mol Pain 2008; 4:47. [PMID: 18950528 PMCID: PMC2584040 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-4-47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 10/25/2008] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The effects of an analgesic treatment (lidocaine patches) on brain activity in chronic low back pain (CBP) and in knee osteoarthritis (OA) were investigated using serial fMRI (contrasting fMRI between before and after two weeks of treatment). Prior to treatment brain activity was distinct between the two groups: CBP spontaneous pain was associated mainly with activity in medial prefrontal cortex, while OA painful mechanical knee stimulation was associated with bilateral activity in the thalamus, secondary somatosensory, insular, and cingulate cortices, and unilateral activity in the putamen and amygdala. After 5% lidocaine patches were applied to the painful body part for two weeks, CBP patients exhibited a significant decrease in clinical pain measures, while in OA clinical questionnaire based outcomes showed no treatment effect but stimulus evoked pain showed a borderline decrease. The lidocaine treatment resulted in significantly decreased brain activity in both patient groups with distinct brain regions responding in each group, and sub-regions within these areas were correlated with pain ratings specifically for each group (medial prefrontal cortex in CBP and thalamus in OA). We conclude that the two chronic pain conditions involve distinct brain regions, with OA pain engaging many brain regions commonly observed in acute pain. Moreover, lidocaine patch treatment modulates distinct brain circuitry in each condition, yet in OA we observe divergent results with fMRI and with questionnaire based instruments.
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- Marwan N Baliki
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611, USA.
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Geha PY, Baliki MN, Wang X, Harden RN, Paice JA, Apkarian AV. Brain dynamics for perception of tactile allodynia (touch-induced pain) in postherpetic neuralgia. Pain 2008; 138:641-656. [PMID: 18384958 PMCID: PMC2614678 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2007] [Revised: 02/15/2008] [Accepted: 02/21/2008] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a debilitating chronic pain condition often accompanied by a sensation of pain when the affected region is touched (tactile allodynia). Here we identify brain regions involved in stimulus-induced touch-evoked pain (dynamical mechanical allodynia, DMA), compare brain activity between DMA and spontaneous pain (described earlier for the same patients in [Geha PY, Baliki MN, Chialvo DR, Harden RN, Paice JA, Apkarian AV. Brain activity for spontaneous pain of postherpetic neuralgia and its modulation by lidocaine patch therapy. Pain 2007;128:88-100]), delineate regions that specifically code the magnitude of perceived allodynia, and show the transformation of allodynia-related information in the brain as a time-evolving network. Eleven PHN patients were studied for DMA and its modulation with Lidoderm therapy (patches of 5% lidocaine applied to the PHN affected body part). Continuous ratings of pain while the affected body part was brushed during fMRI were contrasted with non-painful touch when brushing was applied to an equivalent opposite body site, and with fluctuations of a bar observed during scanning, at three sessions relative to Lidoderm treatment. Lidoderm treatment did not decrease DMA ratings but did decrease spontaneous pain. Multiple brain areas showed preferential activity for allodynia. However, mainly responses in the bilateral putamen and left medial temporal gyrus were related to the magnitude of allodynia. Both DMA and spontaneous pain perceptions were best represented within the same sub-cortical structures but with minimal overlap, implying that PHN pain modulates behavioral learning and hedonics. These results have important clinical implications regarding adequate therapy.
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- P Y Geha
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 5-120 Ward Building, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA Departments of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Baliki MN, Geha PY, Apkarian AV. Spontaneous pain and brain activity in neuropathic pain: functional MRI and pharmacologic functional MRI studies. Curr Pain Headache Rep 2007; 11:171-7. [PMID: 17504643 DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0187-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Functional brain imaging studies in chronic neuropathic pain patients have lagged far behind equivalent studies in acute pain. In the past few years, this trend has begun to shift. This article discusses the novel approach of studying brain activity for spontaneous pain and its modulation by pharmacologic manipulation. We argue that the approach provides a solid methodology for studying clinical (especially neuropathic) pain and patient populations, and moreover, that the latest results using this approach imply that distinct clinical chronic pain conditions seem to involve specific brain circuitry, which is also distinct from the brain activity commonly observed in acute pain.
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- Marwan N Baliki
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Baliki MN, Apkarian AV. Neurological effects of chronic pain. J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother 2007; 21:59-61. [PMID: 17430834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Studies of neurobiological changes that occur in patients with chronic pain are described. These include grey matter loss, effects on emotional processing and learning.
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Baliki MN, Chialvo DR, Geha PY, Levy RM, Harden RN, Parrish TB, Apkarian AV. Chronic pain and the emotional brain: specific brain activity associated with spontaneous fluctuations of intensity of chronic back pain. J Neurosci 2006; 26:12165-73. [PMID: 17122041 PMCID: PMC4177069 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3576-06.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 500] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Living with unrelenting pain (chronic pain) is maladaptive and is thought to be associated with physiological and psychological modifications, yet there is a lack of knowledge regarding brain elements involved in such conditions. Here, we identify brain regions involved in spontaneous pain of chronic back pain (CBP) in two separate groups of patients (n = 13 and n = 11), and contrast brain activity between spontaneous pain and thermal pain (CBP and healthy subjects, n = 11 each). Continuous ratings of fluctuations of spontaneous pain during functional magnetic resonance imaging were separated into two components: high sustained pain and increasing pain. Sustained high pain of CBP resulted in increased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC; including rostral anterior cingulate). This mPFC activity was strongly related to intensity of CBP, and the region is known to be involved in negative emotions, response conflict, and detection of unfavorable outcomes, especially in relation to the self. In contrast, the increasing phase of CBP transiently activated brain regions commonly observed for acute pain, best exemplified by the insula, which tightly reflected duration of CBP. When spontaneous pain of CBP was contrasted to thermal stimulation, we observe a double-dissociation between mPFC and insula with the former correlating only to intensity of spontaneous pain and the latter correlating only to pain intensity for thermal stimulation. These findings suggest that subjective spontaneous pain of CBP involves specific spatiotemporal neuronal mechanisms, distinct from those observed for acute experimental pain, implicating a salient role for emotional brain concerning the self.
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- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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Geha PY, Baliki MN, Chialvo DR, Harden RN, Paice JA, Apkarian AV. Brain activity for spontaneous pain of postherpetic neuralgia and its modulation by lidocaine patch therapy. Pain 2006; 128:88-100. [PMID: 17067740 DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2006] [Revised: 08/04/2006] [Accepted: 09/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a debilitating chronic pain condition, yet there is a lack of knowledge regarding underlying brain activity. Here we identify brain regions involved in spontaneous pain of PHN (n=11) and determine its modulation with Lidoderm therapy (patches of 5% lidocaine applied to the PHN affected body part). Continuous ratings of fluctuations of spontaneous pain during fMRI were contrasted to ratings of fluctuations of a bar observed during scanning, at three sessions: (1) pre-treatment baseline, (2) after 6h of Lidoderm treatment, and (3) after 2 weeks of Lidoderm use. Overall brain activity for spontaneous pain of PHN involved affective and sensory-discriminative areas: thalamus, primary and secondary somatosensory, insula and anterior cingulate cortices, as well as areas involved in emotion, hedonics, reward, and punishment: ventral striatum, amygdala, orbital frontal cortex, and ventral tegmental area. Generally, these activations decreased at sessions 2 and 3, except right anterior insular activity which increased with treatment. The sensory and affective activations only responded to the short-term treatment (6h of Lidoderm); while the ventral striatum and amygdala (reward-related regions) decreased mainly with longer-term treatment (2 weeks of Lidoderm). Pain properties: average magnitude of spontaneous pain, and responses on Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS), decreased with treatment. The ventral striatal and amygdala activity best reflected changes in NPS, which was modulated only with longer-term treatment. The results show a specific brain activity pattern for PHN spontaneous pain, and implicate areas involved in emotions and reward as best reflecting changes in pain with treatment.
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- P Y Geha
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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