Open AccessThe Potentials Recorded Around the Spinal Cord
Author(s) -
Lydia Maria Pereira Giuliano,
Karlo Faria Nunes,
Gilberto Mastrocola Manzano
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
revista neurociências
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1984-4905
pISSN - 0104-3579
DOI - 10.34024/rnc.2013.v21.8169
Subject(s) - spinal cord , dorsum , neurophysiology , anatomy , depolarization , neuroscience , afferent , electrophysiology , medicine , psychology , endocrinology
. Clinical Neurophysiology is strongly based on the interpretation of electric potential fields. Such interpretations may sometimes create different conceptual objects that over time end up as different sides of the same phenomenon. An instructive example is represented by the potential fields recorded around the spinal cord viewed from a historical perspective. Method. A brief historical account is given of the potentials recorded around the spinal cord. Results. Dorsal root reflex, dorsal root potential, cord dorsum potential and primary afferent depolarization are described. Conclusion. all these potentials are mainly different aspects of the same generator - the segmental spinal cord activities - secondary to the recordings by different leads.