Aversive gustatory stimulation activates limbic circuits in humans

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1143-1154

  Zald, David H ^a,b   Lee, Joel T ^a   Fluegel, Kevin W ^a   Pardo, José V ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Medial thalamus; Orbitofrontal; PET; Taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CACAO; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0031804113     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.6.1143     Document Type: Article

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