The effect of active and passive finger movement on cutaneous sensitivity to nonpainful electric stimulation was studied in 7 healthy human subjects. Active and passive finger movement produced a suppression of threshold stimuli, whereas the amplitude discrimination of suprathreshold stimuli was enhanced during passive but not active movement.
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