Decoding Chronic Pain With fMRI
CompletedNCT01766973
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Recent evidence suggests that chronic pain is associated with abnormal connectivity between brain regions associated with the processing of pain. We aim to test the diagnostic power of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose patients with chronic back pain. Using new methods of image acquisition and analysis we aim to develop a computational method to correctly classify patients and matched control subjects.
Study details
- Official title
- Observational Study to Determine Abnormalities in Resting State fMRI in Chronic Back Pain.
- Conditions
- Sponsor
- University of Cambridge
- Start date
- 2013-04-06
- Primary completion
- 2016-04-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * age 18-60 * pain \> 6months * right-handed * non-smoking * mechanical back pain Exclusion Criteria: * significant neurological or psychiatric disease * major systemic illness * MRI exclusion criteria
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01766973