“…This may explain why both healthy subjects under anesthesia (Westling and Johansson, 1984;Cole and Abbs, 1988;Nowak et al, 2001) and patients with a range of sensorimotor dysfunction exhibit elevated GF safety margins. In particular, elevated GFs have been reported in patients with multiple sclerosis (Iyengar et al, 2009), Parkinson's disease (Fellows et al, 1998;Wenzelburger et al, 2002), carpal tunnel syndrome (Zhang et al, 2011;Afifi et al, 2012), peripheral deafferentation , and cerebral stroke Dubrowski et al, 2005;Anens et al, 2010).…”