Maturational changes in the thermoalgesic system in humans from childhood to adulthood revealed by CO2 laser evoked brain potentials following cutaneous heat stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 316, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 137-140

  Opsommer, Emmanuelle ^a   Plaghki, Léon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adelta fibres; Children; CO2 laser; Laser evoked potentials; Nociception; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA NERVE FIBER; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SKIN SENSATION; STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REACTION TIME; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 0035966140     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02398-9     Document Type: Article

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