Chapter 21 Plasticity of pain-related neuronal activity in the human thalamus

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue , 2006, Pages 353-364

  Anderson, W S ^a   Ohara, S ^a   Lawson, H C ^a   Treede, R D ^b   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

amputation; dystonia; neurophysiology; sensory reorganization; single neuron recordings.; thalamus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 33749628545     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)57021-9     Document Type: Review

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