Sweat production and the sympathetic skin response: Improving the clinical assessment of autonomic function

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 109-114

  Ellaway, P H ^a   Kuppuswamy, A ^a   Nicotra, A ^a   Mathias, C J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrodermal potential; Spinal cord injury; Sweat; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952553223     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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