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The general wave form and time course of the evoked cortical potentials to somatosensory stimulation (e.g. of the peripheral nerves or the fingers of the upper rsp. lower extremities) has been known in the last two decades1–4. However, to our knowledge, little information has been published so far on the cerebral responses to trigeminal nerve stimulation derived transcranially in man. Schmidt5 demonstrated potentials recorded from the scalp of human subjects in response to shocks delivered to the intact surface of individual teeth. Chatrian et al.6, 7 studied the cerebral responses to electrical tooth pulp stimulation in man as an objective correlate to acute experimental pain. Stowell8 studied the late slow positivity of the SEP after stimulation of the lower lip with stimuli of increasing noxicity.
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Drechsler, F. (1980). Short and long latency cortical potentials following trigeminal nerve stimulation in man. In: Barber, C. (eds) Evoked Potentials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6645-4_47
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