Subcortical Interactions between Somatosensory Stimuli of Different Modalities and Their Temporal Profile

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1610-1621

  Costa, João ^a,e   Valls Solé, Josep ^a,c,d   Valldeoriola, Francesc ^a   Rumià, Jordi ^b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SKIN; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREMOR;

EID: 57349163112     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90412.2008     Document Type: Article

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