Differential recruitment of high frequency wavelets (600 Hz) and primary cortical response (N20) in human median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-104

  Klostermann, Fabian ^a   Nolte, Guido ^a   Losch, Florian ^a   Curio, Gabriel ^a  

^a Neurophysics Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

High frequency burst; Median nerve; Primary cortical response; Recruitment; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECRUITMENT DETECTION, AUDIOLOGIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032491608     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00773-3     Document Type: Article

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