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Laser-evoked brain potentials (LEPs)

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.

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Researchers involved

Publications

2010

Stimulus novelty and not neural refractoriness explains the repetition suppression of laser-evoked potentials (LEPs)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Wang AL, Mouraux A, Liang M, Iannetti GD.

104(4):2116-24

2009

Nociceptive laser-evoked brain potentials do not reflect nociceptive-specific neural activity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Mouraux A, Iannetti GD.

101(6):3258-3269

2009

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Are there nociceptive-specific brain potentials?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Mouraux A, Plaghki L, Iannetti GD.

102(5):3075-3076

2008

The enhancement of the N1 wave elicited by sensory stimuli presented at very short inter-stimulus intervals is a general feature across sensory systems

PLoS ONE

Wang AL, Mouraux A, Liang M, Iannetti GD.

3(12):e3929

2008

A review of the evidence against the "first come first served" hypothesis

Pain

Mouraux A, Iannetti GD, Comment on Truini et al Pain 2007; 131:43-7.

131:43-7. Pain (2008); 136(1-2):219-221; author reply 222-213

2008

Determinants of laser-evoked EEG responses: pain perception or stimulus saliency?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Iannetti GD, Hughes NP, Lee MC, Mouraux A.

100(2):815-828

2007

Are laser-evoked brain potentials modulated by attending to first or second pain?

Pain

Mouraux A, Plaghki L.

129(3): 321-331

2007

How response inhibition modulates nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory brain-evoked potentials

Clinical Neurophysiology

Hatem SM, Plaghki L, Mouraux A.

118(7):1503-1516

2007

Cortical interactions and integration of nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory inputs in humans

Neuroscience

Mouraux A, Plaghki L.

150(1):72-81

2007

Laser-evoked potentials correlate with clinical evolution in a case of spontaneous and recurrent complex regional pain syndrome type I

The Journal of Pain

Moreau V, Berquin AD, Plaghki L.

23(4):375-379

2006

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Are the processes reflected by late and ultra-late laser evoked potentials specific of nociception?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Mouraux A, Plaghki L.

59:197-204

2005

EEG and laser stimulation as tools for pain research

Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs

Plaghki L, Mouraux A.

6(1):58-64

Institute of Neuroscience (IONS) - Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

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