Early activation of the primary somatosensory cortex without conscious awareness of somatosensory stimuli in tumor patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 193-196

  Preissl H ^a,b   Flor, H ^c   Lutzenberger, W ^a   Duffner, F ^a   Freudenstein, D ^a   Grote, E ^a   Birbaumer, N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Magnetoencephalography; Somatosensory evoked field; Somatosensory system; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0035839261     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02007-9     Document Type: Article

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