The pain-related negative difference potential: A direct measure of central pain pathway activity or of interactions between the innocuous somatosensory and pain pathways?

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 423-442

  Dowman, R ^a   Schell, S ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Innocuous somatosensation; Pain; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0033213067     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0987-7053(00)87266-4     Document Type: Article

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