Article
Neural Mechanisms of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Network-Based fMRI Approach
2020-08-13
Abstract excerpt
Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain (CP), which causes more disability than any other medical condition in the U.S. at a cost of $560-$635 billion per year (IOM, 2011). Opioid analgesics are frequently used to treat CP. However, long term use of opioids can cause brain changes such as opioid-induced hyperalgesia that, over time, increase pain sensation. Also, opioids fail to treat complex psycholog...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 833e2e43-f9a5-52cb-817e-07eaa77446b0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.10.20144063
