Imaging Study of Chronic Low Back Pain in Patients Taking Pain Medication
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Duloxetine has recently been shown to be effective in reducing the pain in chronic pain
patients. Duloxetine is known to exert a central mechanism, however the precise human brain
structures responsible for mediating its pain-relieving properties are not known. We will use
functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to investigate the neural and functional
correlates of pain.