An inhibitory interaction of human cortical responses to stimuli preferentially exciting Aδ or C fibers

Neuroscience

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 798-808

  Tran, T D ^a,b,c   Matre, D ^a,b,d   Casey, K L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; evoked potentials; human; inhibition; pain; somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 40949131358     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.11.050     Document Type: Article

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