Heat pain increases the perceived magnitude of an innocuous electrical stimulus: Evidence for a peripheral mechanism

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 255-262

  Dowman, Robert ^a   Zimmer, Diane ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound action potential; Heat; Innocuous somatosensation; Pain; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURAL NERVE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030513451     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08990229609052581     Document Type: Article

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