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Infrared laser stimulation

In 1975, Mor and Carmon introduced infrared laser stimulators as tools to explore nociception in humans. Allowing brief, synchronous, and selective activation of cutaneous Adelta- and C-fibre nociceptors, laser heat stimulators are now used extensively to study nociception in humans. Recently, we have collaborated to the development of a novel CO2 laser stimulator whose power is regulated using a feedback control based on an online measurement of skin temperature at the site of stimulation (Laser Stimulation Device, SIFEC, Belgium).

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Researchers involved

Publications

2020

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Insular responses to transient painful and non-painful thermal and mechanical spinothalamic stimuli recorded using intracerebral EEG

Nature: Scientific Reports

Liberati G, Mulders D, Algoet M, van den Broeke EN, Ferrao Santos S, Ribeiro Vaz JG, Raftopoulos C, Mouraux A.

10: 22319

2020

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New insights into cutaneous laser stimulation – dependency on skin and laser type

Neuroscience

Frahm KS, Gervasio S, Arguissain F, Mouraux A.

448:71-84.

2020

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Rating the Intensity of a Laser Stimulus, but Not Attending to Changes in Its Location or Intensity Modulates the Laser-Evoked Cortical Activity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.

14:120

2020

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Does motor cortex engagement during movement preparation differentially inhibit nociceptive processing in patients with chronic whiplash associated disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy controls? An experimental study

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Goudman L, Mouraux A, Daenen L, Nijs J, Cras P, Roussel N, Moens M, Lenoir D, Coppieters I, Huysmans E, De Kooning M.

9(5): E1520

2020

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Processing of laser-evoked potentials in patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, and healthy controls: a case-control study

Pain Medicine

Goudman L, Daenen L, Mouraux A, Nijs J, Cras P, Roussel N, Moens M, Coppieters I, Huysmans E, De Kooning M.

21(10):2553-2563.

2020

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Dynamics of the perception and EEG signals triggered by tonic warm and cool stimulation

PLoS ONE

Mulders D, de Bodt C, Lejeune N, Dufour A, Verleysen M, Mouraux A.

15(4):e0231698

2020

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Early gamma-oscillations as correlate of localized nociceptive processing in primary sensorimotor cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Heid C, Mouraux A, Treede RD, Schuh-Hofer S, Rupp A, Baumgärtner U.

123(5):1711-1726

2020

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Rating the intensity of a laser stimulus, but not attending to changes in its location or intensity modulates the laser-evoked cortical activity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.

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2020

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Fibromyalgia syndrome - A laser-evoked potentials study unsupportive of small nerve fibre involvement

European Journal of Pain

Van Assche DCF, Plaghki L, Masquelier E, Hatem SM.

24(2):448-456

2018

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Characterising the short-term habituation of event-related evoked potentials

eNeuro

Mancini F, Pepe A, Di Stefano G, Mouraux A, Iannetti GD.

5(5): ENEURO.0014-18.2018

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