Pain-related and cognitive components of somatosensory evoked potentials following CO₂ laser stimulation in man

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• 作者：Kanda ; Masutaro ; Fujiwara ; Naohito ; Xiaoping ; Xu ; Shindo ; Kazuo ; Nagamine ; Takashi ; Ikeda ; Akio ; et. al.
• 关键词：CO₂ laser stimulation ; Pain SEP ; Oddball paradigm ; Event-related potential ; Pain-related component ; Cognitive component ; Scalp topography
• 刊名：Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/ Evoked Potentials Section
• 出版年：1996
• 期刊代码：86_01685597
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：March, 1996
• 卷：100
• 期：2
• 页码：105-114
• 文件大小：743 K

摘要

We recorded cortical potentials evoked by painful CO₂ laser stimulation (pain SEP), employing an oddball paradigm in an effort to demonstrate event-related potentials (ERP) associated with pain. In 12 healthy subjects, frequent (standard) pain stimuli (probability 0.8) were delivered to one side of the dorsum of the left hand while rare (target) pain stimuli (probability 0.2) were delivered to the other side of the same hand. Subjects were instructed to perform either a mental count or button press in response to the target stimuli. Two early components (N2 and P2) of the pain SEP demonstrated a Cz maximal distribution, and showed no difference in latency, amplitude or scalp topography between the oddball conditions or between response tasks. In addition, another positive component (P3) following the P2 was recorded maximally at Pz only in response to the target stimuli with a peak latency of 593 msec for the count task and 560 msec for the button press task. Its scalp topography was the same as that for electric and auditory P3. The longer latency of pain P3 can be explained not only by its slower impulse conduction but also by the effects of task difficulty in the oddball paradigm employing the pain stimulus compared with electric and auditory stimulus paradigms. It is concluded that the P3 for the pain modality is mainly related to a cognitive process and corresponds to the P3 of electric and auditory evoked responses, whereas both N2 and P2 are mainly pain-related components.