Bladder control, urgency, and urge incontinence: Evidence from functional brain imaging

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 466-474

  Griffiths, Derek J ^a,b   Tadic, Stasa D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrusor overactivity; fMRI; Overactive bladder; Supraspinal control

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MICTURITION REFLEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY URGENCY;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; SENSATION; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, URGE; URINATION;

EID: 50849093905     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20549     Document Type: Review

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