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Simultaneous brain, brainstem, and spinal cord pharmacological-fMRI reveals involvement of an endogenous opioid network in attentional analgesia by Oliva, Valeria, Hartley-Davies, Ron, Moran, Rosalyn, Pickering, Anthony E, Brooks, Jonathan Cw

“…Pain perception is decreased by shifting attentional focus away from a threatening event. This attentional analgesia engages parallel descending control…”
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Deep brain stimulation of the periaqueductal gray releases endogenous opioids in humans by Sims-Williams, Hugh, Matthews, Julian C., Talbot, Peter S., Love-Jones, Sarah, Brooks, Jonathan CW, Patel, Nikunj K., Pickering, Anthony E.

“…Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is used in the treatment of severe refractory neuropathic pain. We tested the hypothesis that DBS…”
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Resolving the Brainstem Contributions to Attentional Analgesia by Brooks, Jonathan C W, Davies, Wendy-Elizabeth, Pickering, Anthony E

“…Previous human imaging studies manipulating attention or expectancy have identified the periaqueductal gray (PAG) as a key brainstem structure implicated in…”
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Intrinsically organized resting state networks in the human spinal cord by Kong, Yazhuo, Eippert, Falk, Beckmann, Christian F., Andersson, Jesper, Finsterbusch, Jürgen, Büchel, Christian, Tracey, Irene, Brooks, Jonathan C. W.

“…Significance The human brain displays an enormous amount of intrinsic activity in the absence of any task or external stimulation. Here we demonstrate that the…”
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Assessment of physiological noise modelling methods for functional imaging of the spinal cord by Kong, Yazhuo, Jenkinson, Mark, Andersson, Jesper, Tracey, Irene, Brooks, Jonathan C.W.

“…The spinal cord is the main pathway for information between the central and the peripheral nervous systems. Non-invasive functional MRI offers the possibility…”
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Neural mechanisms underlying visual attention to health warnings on branded and plain cigarette packs by Maynard, Olivia M., Brooks, Jonathan C. W., Munafò, Marcus R., Leonards, Ute

“…Aims To (1) test if activation in brain regions related to reward (nucleus accumbens) and emotion (amygdala) differ when branded and plain packs of cigarettes…”
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A frontal attention mechanism in the visual mismatch negativity by Hedge, Craig, Stothart, George, Todd Jones, Jenna, Rojas Frías, Priscila, Magee, Kristopher Lundy, Brooks, Jonathan C.W.

“…•We examine frontal mechanisms underlying the visual mismatch negativity.•EEG and fMRI activity was examined in respect to unattended oddball stimuli.•Left…”
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Pain relief as an opponent process: a psychophysical investigation by Leknes, Siri, Brooks, Jonathan C. W., Wiech, Katja, Tracey, Irene

“…Relief from pain in humans is frequently measured by computing the reduction on an 11‐point pain intensity scale. However, this definition of relief may be…”
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Physiological noise modelling for spinal functional magnetic resonance imaging studies by Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Beckmann, Christian F., Miller, Karla L., Wise, Richard G., Porro, Carlo A., Tracey, Irene, Jenkinson, Mark

“…Spinal cord functional imaging allows assessment of activity in primary synaptic connections made by sensory neurons relaying information about the state of…”
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Stimulus site and modality dependence of functional activity within the human spinal cord by Brooks, Jonathan C W, Kong, Yazhuo, Lee, Michael C, Warnaby, Catherine E, Wanigasekera, Vishvarani, Jenkinson, Mark, Tracey, Irene

“…Chronic pain is thought to arise because of maladaptive changes occurring within the peripheral nervous system and CNS. The transition from acute to chronic…”
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Quantitative assessment of the reproducibility of functional activation measured with BOLD and MR perfusion imaging: Implications for clinical trial design by Tjandra, Teddy, Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Figueiredo, Patricia, Wise, Richard, Matthews, Paul M., Tracey, Irene

“…BOLD contrast is the most commonly used functional MRI method for studies of brain activity. However, the underlying physiological processes giving rise to…”
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Identification and characterisation of midbrain nuclei using optimised functional magnetic resonance imaging by Limbrick-Oldfield, Eve H., Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Wise, Richard J.S., Padormo, Francesco, Hajnal, Jo V., Beckmann, Christian F., Ungless, Mark A.

“…Localising activity in the human midbrain with conventional functional MRI (fMRI) is challenging because the midbrain nuclei are small and located in an area…”
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Assessing spinal cord function in multiple sclerosis with functional neuroimaging: insights and limitations by Brooks, Jonathan CW

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Optimizing RetroICor and RetroKCor corrections for multi-shot 3D FMRI acquisitions by Tijssen, Rob H.N., Jenkinson, Mark, Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Jezzard, Peter, Miller, Karla L.

“…Physiological noise, if unaccounted for, can drastically reduce the statistical significance of detected activation in FMRI. In this paper, we systematically…”
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Denoising spinal cord fMRI data: Approaches to acquisition and analysis by Eippert, Falk, Kong, Yazhuo, Jenkinson, Mark, Tracey, Irene, Brooks, Jonathan C.W.

“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human spinal cord is a difficult endeavour due to the cord's small cross-sectional diameter, signal…”
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Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections by Gordon, Andrew, Quadflieg, Susanne, Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Ecker, Ullrich K.H., Lewandowsky, Stephan

“…Upon receiving a correction, initially presented misinformation often continues to influence people's judgment and reasoning. Whereas some researchers believe…”
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Investigating resting-state functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord at 3 T by Eippert, Falk, Kong, Yazhuo, Winkler, Anderson M., Andersson, Jesper L., Finsterbusch, Jürgen, Büchel, Christian, Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Tracey, Irene

“…The study of spontaneous fluctuations in the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal has recently been extended from the brain to the spinal cord. Two…”
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Reliability of resting-state functional connectivity in the human spinal cord: Assessing the impact of distinct noise sources by Kaptan, Merve, Horn, Ulrike, Vannesjo, S. Johanna, Mildner, Toralf, Weiskopf, Nikolaus, Finsterbusch, Jürgen, Brooks, Jonathan C.W., Eippert, Falk

“…•Reliability of spinal cord resting-state functional connectivity was investigated in 45 healthy participants using fMRI at 3T.•Reliability was in the…”
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