Retro- and Prospective Pain Encoded in the Resting Brain – an ICA approach

The brain is permanently active. Synchronized spontaneous oscillations occur across distributed brain regions and form an intrinsic network architecture that mirrors functional systems previously associated with sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. But how plastic is this architecture? Intensive learning is accompanied by functional and structural changes in circumscribed brain regions. However the perceptual relevance of the intrinsic network architecture and its plasticity is unknown. Here we show short-term and long-term adaptations to repetitive painful perception in a bilateral intrinsic network of the huma…