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Somatosensory Evoked Potentials After Trigeminal Stimulation in the Diagnosis of Brain-Stem Lesions

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Brain-Stem Localization and Function

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Registrations of somatosensory evoked potentials after trigeminal stimulation (trigeminal SEP) provide an objective test of trigeminal nerve function and its central connections. Important parts of this system are located in the brain stem. The impulse wave induced after stimulation of terminal trigeminal branches passes via the trigeminal nerve to the main sensory nucleus (which corresponds functionally to the dorsal column nuclei). After decussation in the trigeminal loop, it passes to the ventrobasal nucleus of the thalamus (VPM), and finally to the primary sensory cortex [3].

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  1. Klinik für Neurologie und Klinische Neurophysiologie, Zentralklinikum Krankenhauszweckverband Augsburg, Stenglinstraße 15, 86156, Augsburg, Germany

    M. Stöhr

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  1. Department of Neurology New England Medical Center, Tufts University, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

    Louis R. Caplan

  2. Neurologische Klinik, Universität Mainz, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany

    Hanns Christian Hopf

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Stöhr, M. (1993). Somatosensory Evoked Potentials After Trigeminal Stimulation in the Diagnosis of Brain-Stem Lesions. In: Caplan, L.R., Hopf, H.C. (eds) Brain-Stem Localization and Function. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78172-8_20

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