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Markus Ploner

Professor of Human Pain Research, Technical University of Munich
Verified email at tum.de
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Neurocognitive aspects of pain perception

K Wiech, M Ploner, I Tracey - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
The perception of pain is sensitive to various mental processes such as the feelings and
beliefs that someone has about pain. It is therefore not exclusively driven by the noxious input. …

Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of pain perception

A Schnitzler, M Ploner - Journal of clinical neurophysiology, 2000 - journals.lww.com
The traditional view that the cerebral cortex is not involved in pain processing has been
abandoned during the past decades based on anatomic and physiologic investigations in …

[HTML][HTML] Brain rhythms of pain

M Ploner, C Sorg, J Gross - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Pain is an integrative phenomenon that results from dynamic interactions between sensory
and contextual (ie, cognitive, emotional, and motivational) processes. In the brain the …

The effect of treatment expectation on drug efficacy: imaging the analgesic benefit of the opioid remifentanil

…, R Ni Mhuircheartaigh, MC Lee, M Ploner… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
Evidence from behavioral and self-reported data suggests that the patients’ beliefs and
expectations can shape both therapeutic and adverse effects of any given drug. We investigated …

Anterior insula integrates information about salience into perceptual decisions about pain

…, C Lin, KH Brodersen, U Bingel, M Ploner… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
The decision as to whether a sensation is perceived as painful does not only depend on
sensory input but also on the significance of the stimulus. Here, we show that the degree to …

Pain suppresses spontaneous brain rhythms

M Ploner, J Gross, L Timmermann, B Pollok… - Cerebral …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The neuronal activity of the resting human brain is dominated by spontaneous oscillatory
activity of primary visual, somatosensory and motor areas. These spontaneous brain rhythms …

[HTML][HTML] Gamma oscillations in human primary somatosensory cortex reflect pain perception

J Gross, A Schnitzler, L Timmermann, M Ploner - PLoS biology, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Successful behavior requires selection and preferred processing of relevant sensory
information. The cortical representation of relevant sensory information has been related to …

Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

M Ploner, MC Lee, K Wiech… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Pain is a highly subjective experience that can be substantially influenced by differences in
individual susceptibility as well as personality. How susceptibility to pain and personality …

[PDF][PDF] An integrated MELD model including serum sodium and age improves the prediction of early mortality in patients with cirrhosis

…, G Vizzini, M Ploner, M Peck‐Radosavljevic… - Liver …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) is widely used to predict the short‐term
mortality in patients with cirrhosis, but potential limitations of this score have been reported. The …

Prefrontal gamma oscillations encode tonic pain in humans

…, V Witkovsky, P Schmidt, J Gross, M Ploner - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Under physiological conditions, momentary pain serves vital protective functions. Ongoing
pain in chronic pain states, on the other hand, is a pathological condition that causes …