Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Modulates the Effect of Sex on the Descending Pain Modulatory System in Healthy Volunteers

A Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Descending Pain Modulation, Motor Corticospinal, and Neuroplasticity Regulation Systems in Chronic Myofascial Pain

(2016) Leonardo M. Botelho et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Motor Cortex Excitability and BDNF Levels in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain According to Structural Pathology

(2016) Wolnei Caumo et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Sex-based differences in brain alterations across chronic pain conditions

(2016) Arpana Gupta et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Sex differences and estrogen regulation of BDNF gene expression, but not propeptide content, in the developing hippocampus

(2016) Katherine E. Kight et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Descending Control of Nociceptive Processing in Knee Osteoarthritis Is Associated With Intracortical Disinhibition

(2016) Maria da Graca L. Tarragó et al.   MEDICINE

Normative data of cortical excitability measurements obtained by transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy subjects

(2016) Ana Sofia Cueva et al.   NEUROPHYSIOLOGIE CLINIQUE-CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Hedonic sensitivity to low-dose ketamine is modulated by gonadal hormones in a sex-dependent manner

(2016) Samantha K. Saland et al.   Scientific Reports

The uses and interpretations of the motor-evoked potential for understanding behaviour

(2015) Sven Bestmann et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Increases the Corticospinal Inhibition and the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome: An Explanatory Double-Blinded, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial

(2014) Letizzia Dall’Agnol et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in a community sample

(2013) Marcio Henrique Gomes-Oliveira et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PSIQUIATRIA

Validation of a Brazilian quantitative sensory testing (QST) device for the diagnosis of small fiber neuropathies

(2012) Pedro Schestatsky et al.   ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA

A novel dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation paradigm to probe fast facilitatory inputs from ipsilateral dorsal premotor cortex to primary motor cortex

(2012) Sergiu Groppa et al.   NEUROIMAGE

BDNF as an effect modifier for gender effects on pain thresholds in healthy subjects

(2012) Luciana Cadore Stefani et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale

(2012) Francisléa Sehn et al.   PAIN MEDICINE

Intrinsic functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray, a resting fMRI study

(2010) Jian Kong et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Conditioned pain modulation (the diffuse noxious inhibitory control-like effect): its relevance for acute and chronic pain states

(2010) David Yarnitsky   Current Opinion in Anesthesiology

Central modulation of pain

(2010) Michael H. Ossipov et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Alteration of cortical excitability in patients with fibromyalgia

(2010) Alaa Mhalla et al.   PAIN

Modulation of cortical excitability induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: Influence of timing and geometrical parameters and underlying mechanisms

(2010) Gaby S. Pell et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Gender differences in changes of motor cortex excitability during elevated blood lactate levels

(2010) Valentina Perciavalle et al.   SOMATOSENSORY AND MOTOR RESEARCH

Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research

(2009) Simone Rossi et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Sex, Gender, and Pain: A Review of Recent Clinical and Experimental Findings

(2009) Roger B. Fillingim et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Evaluation of the structure of Brazilian State-Trait Anxiety Inventory using a Rasch psychometric approach

(2009) Márcia Balle Kaipper et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

The methodology of experimentally induced diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC)-like effect in humans

(2009) Dorit Pud et al.   PAIN

Sex-Based Differences in Pain Perception and Treatment

(2009) Channing J. Paller et al.   PAIN MEDICINE

Presynaptic functional trkB receptors mediate the release of excitatory neurotransmitters from primary afferent terminals in lamina II (substantia gelatinosa) of postnatal rat spinal cord

(2008) Adalberto Merighi et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Towards a theory of chronic pain

(2008) A. Vania Apkarian et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Report of an IFCN committee

(2007) Robert Chen et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Determinants of endogenous analgesia magnitude in a diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) paradigm: Do conditioning stimulus painfulness, gender and personality variables matter?

(2007) Michal Granot et al.   PAIN