Subliminal (latent) processing of pain and its evolution to conscious awareness

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Imperceptible Somatosensory Stimulation Alters Sensorimotor Background Rhythm and Connectivity

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Neural circuitry underlying effects of context on human pain-related fear extinction in a renewal paradigm

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From Emotions to Consciousness – A Neuro-Phenomenal and Neuro-Relational Approach

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Pain‐Related and Negative Semantic Priming Enhances Perceived Pain Intensity

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Detecting the Emergence of Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease

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Early evoked pain or dysesthesia is a predictor of central poststroke pain

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Dopamine Precursor Depletion Influences Pain Affect Rather than Pain Sensation

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Effect of pain chronification and chronic pain on an endogenous pain modulation circuit in rats

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Networks of Conscious Experience: Computational Neuroscience in Understanding Life, Death, and Consciousness

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Global reduction of information exchange during anesthetic-induced unconsciousness

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Complex regional pain syndrome of the lower extremity: A retrospective study of 33 patients

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Brain substrates of reward processing and the μ-opioid receptor: a pathway into pain?

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The long‐term impact of tissue injury on pain processing and modulation: A study on ex‐prisoners of war who underwent torture

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Neuroligin 2 regulates spinal GABAergic plasticity in hyperalgesic priming, a model of the transition from acute to chronic pain

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The inevitable contrast: Conscious vs. unconscious processes in action control

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Hippocampus Is Place of Interaction between Unconscious and Conscious Memories

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Risk factors for complex regional pain syndrome in patients with surgically treated traumatic injuries attending hand therapy

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Recurrent Postoperative CRPS I in Patients With Abnormal Preoperative Sympathetic Function

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The forebrain medial septal region and nociception

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Dysfunctional Pain Modulation in Torture Survivors: The Mediating Effect of PTSD

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Experimental evidence for weaker endogenous inhibition of trigeminal pain than extra-trigeminal pain in healthy individuals

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Using prerecorded hemodynamic response functions in detecting prefrontal pain response: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

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Early Treatment of Acute Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after Fracture or Injury with Prednisone: Why Is There a Failure to Treat? A Case Series

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Predictors and trajectories of chronic postoperative pain following hip preservation surgery

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Dopaminergic tone does not influence pain levels during placebo interventions in patients with chronic neuropathic pain

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Hippocampus and consciousness

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Unpleasant odors increase pain processing in a patient with neuropathic pain: Psychophysical and fMRI investigation

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Gene expression profiles in peripheral blood mononuclear cells correlate with salience network activity in chronic visceral pain: A pilot study

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Altered Functional Connectivity in Sickle Cell Disease Exists at Rest and During Acute Pain Challenge

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