When the sun prickles your nose: An EEG study identifying neural bases of photic sneezing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Langer, Nicolas ^a   Beeli, Gian ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NOSE IRRITATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SKIN TINGLING; SNEEZING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LIGHT; NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; VISION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; NOSE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX; SNEEZING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUNLIGHT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950118975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009208     Document Type: Article

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