Sympathetic skin responses evoked by magnetic stimulation of the neck: Normative data

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1487-1489

  Linden, Dieter ^a   Weng, Yvonne ^a   Glocker, Franz X ^b   Kretzschmar, Anke ^a   Diehl, Rolf R ^a   Berlit, Peter ^a  

^a ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

autonomic evaluation; magnetic stimulation; sudomotor; sympathetic; sympathetic skin responses

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEATING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0029844545     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199611)19:11<1487::AID-MUS15>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Drory VE, Korczyn AD: Sympathetic skin response: age effect. Neurology 1993;43:1818-1820.
2. Elie B, Guiheneuc P: Sympathetic skin response: normal resuits in different experimental conditions. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:258-267.
3. Ferrer T, Ramos MJ, Perez-Sales P, Perez-Jimenez A, Alvarez E: Sympathetic sudomotor function and aging. Muscle Nerve 1995;18:395-401.
4. Franz DN, Iggo A: Conduction failure in myelinated and nonmyelinated axons at low temperatures. J Physiol 1968;199: 319-345.
5. Korpelainen JT, Tolonen U, Sotaniemi KA, Myllylä VV: Suppressed sympathetic skin response in brain infarction. Stroke 1993;24:1389-1392.
6. Linden D, Berlit P: Sympathetic skin responses (SSRs) in monofocal brain lesions: topographical aspects of central sympathetic pathways. Acta Neurol Scand 1995;91:372-376.
7. Low PA, Opfer-Gehrking TL, Proper CJ, Zimmerman I: The effect of aging on cardiac autonomic and postganglionic sudomotor function. Muscle Nerve 1990;13:152-157.
8. Matsunaga K, Uozumi T, Tsuji S, Murai Y: Sympathetic skin responses evoked by magnetic stimulation of the neck. J Neurol Sci 1995;128:188-194.
9. Shahani BT, Halperin JJ, Boulu P, Cohen J: Sympathetic skin response - a method of assessing unmyelinated axon dysfunction in peripheral neuropathies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1984;47:536-542.
10. Sourek K: The nervous control of skin potentials in man. Rozpravy Cekoslovenske Akademie Ved Roenik (Prague) 1965;75: 1-97.