Topography and sources of electromagnetic cerebral responses to electrical and air-puff stimulation of the hand

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-239

  Rossini, P M ^a,b   Deuschl, G ^c   Pizzella, V ^d   Tecchio, F ^a,d   Pasquarelli, A ^d   Feifel, E ^c   Romani, G L ^e   Lucking C H ^c  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air puff finger stimulation; Electrical hand stimulation; Somatosensory evoked fields; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030001242     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(95)00275-8     Document Type: Article

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