Effects of operantly conditioning the amplitude of the P200 peak of the SEP on pain sensitivity and the spinal nociceptive withdrawal reflex in humans

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 252-261

  Dowman, Robert ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL REFLEX; SURAL NERVE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0029871209     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb00422.x     Document Type: Article

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