Nociceptive Local Field Potentials Recorded from the Human Insula Are Not Specific for Nociception

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Liberati, Giulia ^a   Klöcker, Anne ^a   Safronova, Marta M ^a,b   Ferrão Santos, Susana ^b   Ribeiro Vaz, Jose Geraldo ^b   Raftopoulos, Christian ^b   Mouraux, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR INSULA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MODULATION; NOCICEPTION; STIMULUS; ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961290544     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002345     Document Type: Article

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