Effects of Sensory Behavioral Tasks on Pain Threshold and Cortical Excitability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Volz, Magdalena Sarah ^a,b   Suarez Contreras, Vanessa ^a   Mendonca, Mariana E ^a   Pinheiro, Fernando Santos ^a   Merabet, Lotfi B ^c   Fregni, Felipe ^a  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871905262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052968     Document Type: Article

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