2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Understanding mechanism of a chronic pain with functional neuroimaging

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23650219
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Fusional brain recording science
Research Institution	Okayama University
Principal Investigator	GOFUKU Akio 岡山大学, 大学院・自然科学研究科, 教授 (20170475)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SATO Kenji 岡山大学, 大学病院, 准教授 (70359884)
Research Collaborator	FUKUMORI Satoshi 岡山大学, 大学院・自然科学研究科, 博士後期課程学生 MIYAKE Kantaro 岡山大学, 大学院・自然科学研究科, 博士後期課程学生
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	慢性疼痛 / 脳機能計測 / fMRI / バーチャルリアリティ
Research Abstract	This study aims at understanding the mechanism of a therapy system with virtual reality technology for patients who have chronic pain. The hypothesis of the mechanism is that the patients who have treatment effect feel sense of agency (SA) when they use the therapy system. This study investigates the existence of SA in using the therapy system by means of fMRI and a questionnaire. As the result, the existence of SA in using the therapy system was confirmed by the results of fMRI measurements and the questionnaire.

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