Sensory psychophysiology comprises investigations of the quantitative relations of
physiological processes and sensory experiences. It has to be distinguished from classical …

Oral somatosensory awareness refers to the somatic sensations arising within the mouth,
and to the information these sensations provide about the state and structure of the mouth …

A major role of tooth receptors in signaling overt or impending tissue damage (nociception)
has been previously established by substantial evidence from mechanical, thermal and …

The literature on pain in dementia patients is reviewed. A summary of methods for
assessment of pain in demented elderly persons and an examination of studies that used …

Although the proposition that the cerebral cortex has little to do with a particular sensation
would seem to be a foreign idea to most contemporary neuroscientists, it has not been very …

Thresholds for sensation, pain, and tolerance were obtained from 20 male and 20 female
observers who received trains of electrical pulses applied to the volar forearm. Also …

summary Amputation of a limb or a tooth leads to the loss of a large number of
exteroceptors. These play an important role in sensory perception and feedback, which tune …

Tooth pulp shock does not produce only pain; low intensity stimulation results in a non-
painful sensation that is termed pre-pain. In animals low intensity tooth pulp shock does not …

Cerebral evoked potentials have been recorded by various means for nearly 100 years [141.
Introduction of digital computers for signal averaging in the early 1960's permitted the …

The distribution of tooth pulp-evoked potentials (TPEPs) was characterized in the primary
motor (MI), primary somatosensory (SI) and secondary somatosensory (SII) cortices of the …