Pain facilitates tactile processing in human somatosensory cortices

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1825-1829

  Ploner, Markus ^a   Pollok, Bettina ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 4143119047     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00260.2004     Document Type: Article

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