Cerebral representation of the relief of itch by scratching

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3216-3224

  Vierow, Verena ^a   Fukuoka, Miyuki ^b   Ikoma, Akihiko ^b   Dörfler, Arnd ^a   Handwerker, Hermann Otto ^a   Forster, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCRATCHING;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRURITUS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749105149     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00207.2009     Document Type: Article

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