Emotional facial expressions modulate pain-induced beta and gamma oscillations in sensorimotor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 14542-14550

  Senkowski, Daniel ^a,b   Kautz, Janine ^a   Hauck, Michael ^a   Zimmermann, Roger ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACILITATION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054048521     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6002-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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