Inhibition of cortical responses to Aδ inputs by a preceding C-related response: Testing the "first come, first served" hypothesis of cortical laser evoked potentials

Pain

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-347

  Truini, A ^a   Galeotti, F ^a   Cruccu, G ^a   Garcia Larrea, L ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

A ; Brain responses; C fibres; Evoked potentials; Laser evoked potentials; Pain

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NEODYMIUM; PEROVSKITE; YTTRIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; C WAVE; ENERGY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INHIBITION KINETICS; LASER; MEASUREMENT; NEODYMIUM LASER; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 34548472657     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.06.023     Document Type: Article

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