Unmyelinated tactile afferents signal touch and project to insular cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 900-904

  Olausson, H ^a   Lamarre, Y ^b   Backlund, H ^a,c   Morin, C ^d   Wallin, B G ^a   Starck, G ^a   Ekholm, S ^a   Strigo, I ^d   Worsley, K ^d   Vallbo, A B ^c   Bushnell, M C ^d  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0036728622     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn896     Document Type: Article

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