Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
460-01-012 ISMRM Abstract

Mechanical Pressure Pain Evokes Predominantly Phasic Onset Responses Across Brain and Spinal Cord

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Christine S W Law 1, Dario Pfyffer1, Merve Kaptan1, Xue Zhang2, Kenneth Weber1, Sean Mackey1, Gary H Glover3
1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Christine S W Law

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1. 1. (ISMRM 2022) Pressure Pain Activation Revealed in Simultaneous Brain, High-Res Brainstem, and High-Res Spinal Cord fMRI. https://archive.ismrm.org/2022/1868.html.
2. 2. Nold, J.I., Tinnermann, A., Fadai, T., Mintah, M., Morgenroth, M.-S., and Büchel, C. (2025). Comparing neural responses to cutaneous heat and pressure pain in healthy participants. Sci. Rep. 15, 14387. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99247-7. [doi]
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