P9 in median nerve SEPs is a junctional potential generated by the change of the volume conductor size between trunk and neck

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 584-587

  Mochizuki, Atsuko ^a   Sonoo, Masahiro ^a   Shimizu, Teruo ^a   Iwata, Makoto ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Far field potentials; Junctional potentials; Median nerve; P9; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; DIPOLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDIAN NERVE; NECK; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; THEORY; TRUNK;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 0032213572     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(98)00039-2     Document Type: Article

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