*Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland; †Laboratory for Experimental Pain Research, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, University of Aalborg, Denmark; and ‡Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland
Received January 25, 2001;
revised June 30, 2001; accepted September 26, 2001.
Funding was provided by the Physical Medicine Research Foundation's Woodbridge Grants and Award Program supported by unrestricted grants from The Woodbridge Group, State Farm Insurance and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). All sponsors adhere to PMRF's Sponsorship Policy. The study was also supported by the Desirée and Niels Yde Foundation (Copenhagen, Denmark, and Zurich, Switzerland), the Danish National Research Foundation (Denmark) and the Scientific Funds of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Bern (Switzerland).
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Michele Curatolo, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pain Therapy, Inselspital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland; e-mail: [email protected]