Shifting gustatory thresholds and food cravings during pregnancy as expanding uterine-induced steady potential shifts within the insula: An hypothesis

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 50-52

  Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASTE; UTERUS;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASTE; UTERUS;

EID: 0035257822     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.92.1.50     Document Type: Article

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