https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/467744
標題: | Effect of aging on the cerebral processing of thermal pain in the human brain | 作者: | MING-TSUNG TSENG Chiang M.-C. Yazhuo K. CHI-CHAO CHAO WEN-YIH TSENG SUNG-TSANG HSIEH |
公開日期: | 2013 | 出版社: | Elsevier B.V. | 卷: | 154 | 期: | 10 | 起(迄)頁: | 2120-2129 | 來源出版物: | Pain | 摘要: | The perception of pain changes as people age. However, how aging affects the quality of pain and whether specific pain-processing brain regions mediate this effect is unclear. We hypothesized that specific structures in the cerebral nociceptive system mediate the effect of aging on the variation in different pain psychophysical measures. We examined the relationships between painful heat stimulation to the foot and both functional magnetic resonance imaging signals and gray matter volume in 23 healthy subjects (aged 25?71 years). Increased age was related to decreased subjective ratings of overall pain intensity and the "sharp" quality of pain. Group activation maps of multiple linear regression analyses revealed that age predicted responses in the middle insular cortex (IC) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) to pain stimuli after controlling for their gray matter volumes. Blood oxygenation level-dependent signals in the contralateral middle IC and S1 were related to ratings of "sharpness," but not any affective descriptors of pain. Importantly, activity in the contralateral middle IC specifically mediated the effect of age on overall pain perception, whereas activity in the contralateral S1 mediated the relationship between age and sharp sensation to pain. The analyses of gray matter volume revealed that key nociceptive cerebral regions did not undergo significant age-related gray matter loss. However, the volume of the cingulate cortex covaried with pain perception after adjusting for corresponding neural activity to pain. These results suggest that age-related functional alterations in pain-processing regions are responsible for changes in pain perception during normal aging. ? 2013 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84884290022&doi=10.1016%2fj.pain.2013.06.041&partnerID=40&md5=f2e55338c55c1f4a17138b0330c261e3 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/467744 |
ISSN: | 0304-3959 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.041 | SDG/關鍵字: | adult; aged; aging; article; blood oxygenation; brain function; brain mapping; cingulate gyrus; female; functional magnetic resonance imaging; gray matter; human; insula; male; nociception; normal human; nuclear magnetic resonance scanner; pain assessment; primary somatosensory cortex; priority journal; psychophysiology; thermal stimulation; Aging; Contact heat-evoked potential; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Noxious heat; Pain; Voxel-based morphometry; Adult; Aged; Aging; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex; Female; Hot Temperature; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Pain |
顯示於: | 解剖學暨細胞生物學科所 |
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