UCLA Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
UCLA Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Neuroimage Clin. 2019;21:101686. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101686. Epub 2019 Jan 22.
• Patients with sickle-cell disease (SCD) have greater resting-state functional connectivity between the locus coeruleus (LC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). • Patients with SCD have greater resting state centrality of the LC. • SCD patients with chronic pain exhibited even greater functional connectivity between the LC and dlPFC. • This study supports hyper-connectivity between the LC and PFC is a potential chronic pain generator.
• 镰状细胞病 (SCD) 患者蓝斑 (LC) 和背外侧前额叶皮层 (dlPFC) 之间存在更大的静息状态功能连接。 • SCD 患者 LC 的静息状态中心度更大。 • 伴有慢性疼痛的 SCD 患者 LC 与 dlPFC 之间的功能连接甚至更强。 • 本研究支持 LC 与 PFC 之间的超连接是潜在的慢性疼痛发生机制。