Brain activation in response to bladder filling and simultaneous stimulation of the dorsal clitoral nerve-An fMRI study in healthy women

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 682-689

  Mehnert, Ulrich ^a   Boy, Sönke ^a   Svensson, Jonas ^b   Michels, Lars ^b   Reitz, André ^a   Candia, Victor ^b   Kleiser, Raimund ^b   Kollias, Spyros ^b   Schurch, Brigitte ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bladder; Dorsal clitoral nerve; fMRI; Micturition control; Neuromodulation; Urge to void

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FILLING; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLITORIS; DORSAL CLITORAL NERVE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MICTURITION; NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLITORIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSATION; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 44449089843     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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