Characterizing the cortical activity through which pain emerges from nociception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7909-7916

  Lee, Michael C ^a,b   Mouraux, André ^c   Iannetti, Gian Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67449168165     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0014-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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