Abstract
Somatosensory potentials evoked by electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves can be recorded by surface electrodes at various locations along the somatosensory pathway. The potentials correspond to activity in peripheral nerves (Dawson and Scott, 1949; Gilliatt and Sears, 1958; Buchthal and Rosenfalck, 1966), spinal cord (Cracco, 1973; Matthews, Beauchamp, and Small, 1974; Jones, 1977), brainstem and midbrain (Cracco and Cracco, 1976; Jones, 1977), and somatosensory cortex (Dawson, 1947; Goff, Rosner, and Allison, 1962; Cracco and Cracco, 1976). The neural generators of these potentials in humans have been proposed from comparable experiments in animals using the correlation between potentials recorded from brain structures comprising the sensory pathway and the surface derived potentials (Iragui-Madoz and Wiederholt, 1977).
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Pratt, H., Amlie, R.N., Starr, A. (1979). Somatosensory Potentials in Humans Evoked by Both Mechanical Stimulation of the Skin and Electrical Stimulation of the Nerve. In: Kenshalo, D.R. (eds) Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3039-4_7
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