Dissociation of motor task-induced cortical excitability and pain perception changes in healthy volunteers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Volz, Magdalena S ^a,b   Mendonca, Mariana ^a   Pinheiro, Fernando S ^a   Cui, Huashun ^a   Santana, Marcus ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HAND; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859043738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034273     Document Type: Article

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