Improving the acquisition of nociceptive evoked potentials without causing more pain

Pain

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 235-241

  Kramer, John L K ^a   Haefeli, Jenny ^a,b   Jutzeler, Catherine R ^a,b   Steeves, John D ^c   Curt, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact heat evoked potentials; Electrophysiology; Laser evoked potentials; Neurophysiology; Single trial averaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORY NERVE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84872674811     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.10.027     Document Type: Article

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