A painful cutaneous laser stimulus evokes responses from single neurons in the human thalamic principal somatic sensory nucleus ventral caudal (Vc)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2210-2217

  Kobayashi, K ^a   Winberry, J ^a   Liu, C C ^a   Treede, R D ^b   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LASER; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LASERS; PAIN; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SKIN; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 65649121203     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91347.2008     Document Type: Article

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