Passing lanes and slow lanes into the nociceptive network of the human brain

Pain

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-225

  Treede, Rolf Detlef ^a   Lenz, Frederick A ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; INSULA; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745728111     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.05.014     Document Type: Editorial

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