N10 component in median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) is not an antidromic motor potential

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2645-2649

  Sonoo, M ^a   Hatanaka, Y ^a   Tsukamoto, H ^a   Tsai Shozawa, Y ^a   Shimizu, T ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Far field potential; Median nerve; N10; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE FIBER; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS;

EID: 4644238705     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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