Nociceptive steady-state evoked potentials elicited by rapid periodic thermal stimulation of cutaneous nociceptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6079-6087

  Mouraux, Andre ^a   Iannetti, Gian Domenico ^b   Colon, Elisabeth ^a   Nozaradan, Sylvie ^a,c   Legrain, Valery ^a,d   Plaghki, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANENOUS NOCICEPTOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE EVOKED POTENTIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOUCH; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79955768772     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3977-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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