Reorganization of sensory modalities evoked by microstimulation in region of the thalamic principal sensory nucleus in patients with pain due to nervous system injury

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 399, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-138

  Lenz, F A ^a   Gracely, R H ^b   Baker, F H ^a   Richardson, R T ^a   Dougherty, P M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Human thalamic ventral posterior nucleus; Nervous system injury; Somatosensory plasticity; Spinothalamic tract

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032517159     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980914)399:1<125::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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