Distraction affects frontal alpha rhythms related to expectancy of pain: An EEG study

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1268-1277

  Del Percio, Claudio ^a,b,c,d   Le Pera, Domenica ^e   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^b   Babiloni, Claudio ^a,c   Brancucci, Alfredo ^a,b,d   Chen, Andrew C N ^f   De Armas, Liala ^e   Miliucci, Roberto ^g   Restuccia, Domenico ^g   Valeriani, Massimiliano ^h   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^c,i  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Italian National Olympic Committee   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^f CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythms; Cognition; Distraction; Electroencephalography (EEG); Event related desynchronization synchronization (ERD ERS); Pain; Sensorimotor interactions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33745100897     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.01.013     Document Type: Article

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