Cortical brain responses during passive nonpainful median nerve stimulation at low frequencies (0.5-4 Hz): An fMRI study - Ferretti, Antonio; Babiloni, Claudio; Arienzo, Donatello; Del Gratta, Cosimo; Rossini, Paolo Maria; Tartaro, Armando; Romani, Gian Luca (Human brain mapping, 2007)
Keywords: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Mapping; Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Electric Stimulation - methods; Electrodiagnosis. Electric activity recording; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory - physiology; Female; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Median Nerve - physiology; median nerve electrical stimulation; Medical sciences; Nervous system; Oxygen - blood; Radiodiagnosis. Nmr imagery. Nmr spectrometry; Reaction Time - radiation effects; secondary somatosensory cortex (SII); Somatosensory Cortex - blood supply; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Somesthesis and somesthetic pathways (proprioception, exteroception, nociception); interoception; electrolocation. Sensory receptors; stimulus frequency; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Stimulus frequency; median nerve electrical stimulation; Nervous system diseases; Radiodiagnosis; Electrical stimulus; Central nervous system; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Low frequency; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Somatosensory cortex; secondary somatosensory cortex (SII); Somesthetic pathway; Median nerve; Functional imaging