A comparison of the burst activity of lateral thalamic neurons in chronic pain and non-pain patients

Pain

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 567-575

  Radhakrishnan, V ^a   Tsoukatos, J ^a   Davis, K D ^a,b   Tasker, R R ^a,b   Lozano, A M ^a,b   Dostrovsky, J O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burst; Calcium spike; Human; Pain; Sleep; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; AROUSAL; CALCIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODICITY; PHANTOM LIMB; SLEEP; THALAMUS; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 0032933158     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00248-6     Document Type: Article

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