title: Pain perception: modification of threshold of intolerance and cortical potentials by cutaneous stimulation.
abstract: Cutaneous electrical stimulation temporarily raises the threshold of intolerance for pain elicited by electric shock. Similar stimulation suppresses the somatosensory cortical evoked potential.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004597:Electroshock; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain; D010465:Perception; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation*; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*