Pain-evoked blink reflex

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 265-270

  Ellrich, Jens ^a   Bromm, Burkhart ^a   Hopf, Hanns C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

blink reflex; brain stem; pain; R2 component; R3 component

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLINKING; CHIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIP; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTORS; ORBIT; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN;

EID: 0031030505     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199703)20:3<265::AID-MUS1>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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