Painful cutaneous laser stimuli induce event-related oscillatory EEG activities that are different from those induced by nonpainful electrical stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 824-833

  Chien, J H ^a   Liu, C C ^a   Kim, J H ^b   Markman, T M ^a   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortex; EEG; Event related synchronization; Human; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAINFUL STIMULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SKIN TINGLING; STIMULUS; ATTENTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN WAVES; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCICEPTION; SKIN;

EID: 84906078484     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00209.2014     Document Type: Article

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