Laser pain fails to inhibit innocuous-related activity in the central somatosensory pathways

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 371-378

  Dowman, Robert ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innocuous somatosensation; Pain; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0032912104     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299981155     Document Type: Article

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