Gamma oscillations are involved in the sensorimotor transformation of pain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1025-1031

  Schulz, Enrico ^a   Tiemann, Laura ^a   Witkovsky, Viktor ^b   Schmidt, Paul ^a   Ploner, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Motor response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAMMA OSCILLATION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; OSCILLATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN WAVES; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865085853     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00186.2012     Document Type: Article

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