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Leão's Cortical Spreading Depression and the Somatosensory Homunculus: A Contradiction?
Author(s) -
Vanopdenbosch Ludo,
Herroelen Luc
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1998.3804322.x
Subject(s) - somatosensory system , neuroscience , contradiction , depression (economics) , psychology , cortical spreading depression , somatosensory evoked potential , philosophy , psychiatry , linguistics , migraine , economics , macroeconomics
We present two clinical cases with presumed cortical spreading depression in a pattern which seems inconsistent with the classical drawing of Penfield and Rasmussen's somatosensory homunculus.