Cortical plasticity: Effect of high and low intensity conditioning electrical stimulations (100 Hz) on SEPs to painful finger stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1075-1084

  Wang, Li ^a   Chen, Andrew C N ^a,b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditioning electrical stimulation; Cortical plasticity; Dipole; Little finger D5; SEPs; Thumb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THUMB; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646058310     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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