Central somatosensory conduction in man: neural generators and interpeak latencies of the far-field components recorded from neck and right or left scalp and earlobes

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
J E Desmedt, G Cheron

Abstract

Early somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) components to median nerve or finger stimulation were recorded with non-cephalic references in normal young adults. Detailed topographic data over scalp and neck were related to anatomical observations on the actual conduction distances in dorsal column, medial lemniscus and thalamo-cortical parts of the somatosensory pathway. The extrapolation of afferent conduction velocity (CV) measured from sensory nerve potentials along the peripheral nerve to the C6-C7 spinal segments identified the spinal entry time with the onset of the neck N11 or scalp P11 (far field 2 or FF2). The first far field (FF1) is generated in the nerve proximal to axilla. The definite latency shift of the spinal negativity along the neck indicates a CV of 58 m/sec. Data about the maximal diameter of lemniscal axons in man were used to calculate a CV of 40.5 m/sec. Consideration of transit times from spinal entry to cortex and of synaptic delays clarified the arrival times of the afferent volley at various relay nuclei, and also suggested a thalamo-cortical CV of about 33 m/sec. Interpeak and onset-to-peak measures on scalp far fields suggest that FF3-FF4 are generated in medial lemniscus rather than above the thalam...Continue Reading

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