Cortical processing of lateral skin stretch stimulation in humans.

Direction discrimination of a moving tactile stimulus requires intact dorsal columns and provides a sensitive clinical test of somatosensory dysfunction. Cortical mechanisms are poorly understood. We have applied tangential skin pulls to the right lower leg during functional magnetic resonance imagi...

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Principais autores: Backlund Wasling, H, Lundblad, L, Löken, L, Wessberg, J, Wiklund, K, Norrsell, U, Olausson, H
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2008