Affective Circuitry Alterations in Patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia

• Main Authors: Dave J. Hayes (Author), David Q. Chen (Author), Jidan Zhong (Author), Ariel Lin (Author), Brendan Behan (Author), Matthew Walker (Author), Mojgan Hodaie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe chronic neuropathic facial pain disorder. Affect-related behavioral and structural brain changes have been noted across chronic pain disorders, but have not been well-studied in TN. We examined the potential impact of TN (37 patients: 23 with right-sided TN, 14...