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The silent period in pure sensory neuronopathy
Author(s) -
Leis A. Arturo,
Kofler Markus,
Ross Mark A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
muscle and nerve
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1097-4598
pISSN - 0148-639X
DOI - 10.1002/mus.880151209
Subject(s) - silent period , period (music) , sensory system , audiology , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , neuroscience , philosophy , aesthetics , stimulation , transcranial magnetic stimulation
“Normal” electromyographic silent periods (SPs), produced by electrical stimulation of digital nerves, were recorded in the voluntarily contracting abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscle of a patient with pure sensory neuronopathy and absent sensory nerve action potentials (SNAPs). Such findings implicate the smaller, slower conducting fibers in the genesis of the cutaneous silent period. These same fibers may be activated during more proximal stimulation to contribute to the latter portions of the mixed nerve silent period. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.