Changes in sensory hand representation and pain thresholds induced by motor cortex stimulation in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2667-2676

  Houzé, Bérengère ^a,b   Bradley, Claire ^a,b   Magnin, Michel ^a,b   Garcia Larrea, Luis ^a,b  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

motor cortex; pain; plasticity; rTMS; somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR STIMULATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMITTENT THETA BURST STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURONAVIGATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY PLASTICITY; SHAM PROCEDURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN; PLASTICITY; RTMS; SOMATOSENSORY-EVOKED POTENTIALS;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885907973     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs255     Document Type: Article

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