Effect of pinching-evoked pain on jaw-stretch reflexes and exteroceptive suppression periods in healthy subjects

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2180-2188

  Biasiotta, A ^a,b   Peddireddy, A ^a   Wang, K ^a   Romaniello, A ^b   Frati, A ^c   Svensson, P ^a,d   Arendt Nielsen, L ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exteroceptive suppression periods; Jaw stretch reflex; Pinch pain; Trigeminal brainstem reflexes; Trigeminal pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; JAW; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; EAR, EXTERNAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYEBROWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOSE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX, STRETCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 34548522994     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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