Transcranial direct current stimulation does neither modulate results of a quantitative sensory testing protocol nor ratings of suprathreshold heat stimuli in healthy volunteers

European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1251-1263

  Jurgens T P ^a   Schulte, A ^a   Klein, T ^b   May, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VIBRATION SENSE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NOCICEPTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THERMOSENSING; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870030081     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2012.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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