Effect of stimulus frequency on human cerebral hemodynamic responses to electric median nerve stimulation: A near-infrared spectroscopic study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-4

  Tanosaki, Masato ^a,b   Sato, Chie ^a   Shimada, Miho ^a   Iguchi, Yoshinobu ^a   Hoshi, Yoko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electric median nerve stimulation; Hemodynamic response; Near infrared spectroscopy; Primary somatosensory cortex; Secondary somatosensory cortex; Stimulus frequency

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MONITORING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE STIMULATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0242459203     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.055     Document Type: Article

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