Contact heat evoked potentials to painful and non-painful stimuli: Effect of attention towards stimulus properties

Brain Topography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-123

  Le Pera, Domenica ^a,b,d   Valeriani, Massimiliano ^b,c   Niddam, David ^a   Chen, Andrew C N ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Casa di Cura S Raffaele Pisana ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Evoked potential; Heat stimulation; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 12244309489     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021472524739     Document Type: Article

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