Abstract #1678

Opposite Parietal and Midbrain BOLD Patterns During Inflammatory Pain in the Rat: A High-Field FMRI Study

Ariel Graff-Guerrero^1,2, Juan Manuel Ortega-Legaspi³, Camilo De la Fuente-Sandoval⁴, Francisco Pellicer³, Desiree Lpez⁵, Alvino Moreno⁵, Rodrigo Martn⁵, Sergio Solis⁵, Silvia Hidalgo⁵, Alfredo O. Rodriguez⁵

¹Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, DF, Mexico; ²PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Laboratorio de Neurofisiologa Integrativa, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente, Mexico; ⁴Laboratorio de Psiquiatria Experimental, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia, Mexico; ⁵Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad, Autnoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico, DF, Mexico

The development of high-field magnetic resonance scanners, for small animals, have redirected the study of pain using fMRI in preclinical models. While human studies have advantages to study cognitive-psychological processes during pain perception, animal studies allow to correlate fMRI with basic mechanisms.