Laser-evoked potentials after painful hand and foot stimulation in humans: Evidence for generation of the middle-latency component in the secondary somatosensory cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-182

  Spiegel, J ^a   Hansen, C ^a   Treede, R D ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evoked potential; Heat pain; Infrared laser; Nociceptive system; Primary somatosensory cortex; Secondary somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0030568988     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13025-1     Document Type: Article

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