Sudomotor skin responses following nerve and brain stimulation

Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1993 Dec;89(6):442-6. doi: 10.1016/0168-5597(93)90119-a.

Abstract

A comparative evaluation of sudomotor innervation to the limbs and perineum was made using electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist and transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain. Sympathetic skin responses (SSRs) were recorded from the palms (SSR-1), the soles (SSR-2) and the perineum (SSR-3). Normative data in 25 volunteers showed the following latencies in seconds: [table: see text].

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Female
  • Galvanic Skin Response / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetics
  • Male
  • Median Nerve / physiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Reaction Time / physiology
  • Reference Values