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Brain Processing Of Contagious Itch In Patients With Atopic Dermatitis, C. Schut, Hideki Mochizuki, Shoshana Grossman, Andrew C. Lin, Chris Conklin, Feroze B. Mohamed, Uwe Gieler, Jorg P. Kupfer, Gil Yosipovitch
Brain Processing Of Contagious Itch In Patients With Atopic Dermatitis, C. Schut, Hideki Mochizuki, Shoshana Grossman, Andrew C. Lin, Chris Conklin, Feroze B. Mohamed, Uwe Gieler, Jorg P. Kupfer, Gil Yosipovitch
Department of Radiology Faculty Papers
Several studies show that itch and scratching cannot only be induced by pruritogens like histamine or cowhage, but also by the presentation of certain (audio-) visual stimuli like pictures on crawling insects or videos showing other people scratching. This phenomenon is coined "Contagious itch" (CI). Due to the fact that CI is more profound in patients with the chronic itchy skin disease atopic dermatitis (AD), we believe that it is highly relevant to study brain processing of CI in this group. Knowledge on brain areas involved in CI in AD-patients can provide us with useful hints regarding non-invasive treatments that …