Pain assessment by continuous EEG: Association between subjective perception of tonic pain and peak frequency of alpha oscillations during stimulation and at rest

Brain Research

Volumn 1344, Issue , 2010, Pages 77-86

  Nir, Rony Reuven ^a,b   Sinai, Alon ^b   Raz, Einat ^a   Sprecher, Elliot ^a,b   Yarnitsky, David ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Electroencephalography (EEG); Peak frequency; Psychophysics; Tonic pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953912121     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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