Arousal electrical stimuli evoke sudomotor activity related to P300, and skin vasoconstrictor activity related to N140 in humans. Issue 5 (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kuwahara, Yuko; Tsukahara, Reiko; Iwase, Satoshi; Shimizu, Yuuki; Nishimura, Naoki; Sugenoya, Junichi; Sato, Motohiko
• Is Part Of: Clinical neurophysiology. Volume 126:Issue 5(2015:May)
• Page Start: 933
• Page End: 942
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Neurophysiology -- Periodicals; Electroencephalography -- Periodicals; Electromyography -- Periodicals; Neurology -- Periodicals; 612.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.08.018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1388-2457

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st105">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp0005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="o0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0145">Skin sympathetic nerve activity (SSNA) contained sudomotor and skin vasoconstrictor activities is modulated not only by thermal conditions, but also arousal stimuli.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0150">We elucidated that different components of event-related potentials (ERPs) are related to sudomotor and vasoconstrictor activities composing arousal SSNA bursts.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="o0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0155">The sudomotor activity in arousal SSNA is related to attention and the skin vasoconstrictor activity is related to the detection of somatosensory events.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>