Stability of tactile- and pain-related fMRI brain activations: An examination of threshold-dependent and threshold-independent methods

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1947-1962

  Taylor, Keri S ^a,b   Davis, Karen D ^a,b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Pain; Reproducibility; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649658056     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20641     Document Type: Article

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