Transcranial direct current stimulation over somatosensory cortex decreases experimentally Induced acute pain perception

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Antal, Andrea ^a   Brepohl, Nadine ^a   Poreisz, Csaba ^a   Boros, Klara ^a   Csifcsak, Gabor ^a,b   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Laser evoked potentials; Pain; SI; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; THULIUM; YTTRIUM;

ADULT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; SCALP; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YAG LASER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PAIN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 38049084110     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318157233b     Document Type: Article

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