Effects of ageing on spinal motor and autonomic pain responses

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 446, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 129-132

  Mylius, Veit ^a   Kunz, Miriam ^a,b   Hennighausen, Elisabeth ^a   Lautenbacher, Stefan ^b   Schepelmann, Karsten ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Nociception; Nociceptive flexion reflex; Pain perception; Sympathetic skin response; Verbal pain rating

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SURAL NERVE; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53849094059     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.048     Document Type: Article

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