Physiological Responses to Brain Stimulation During Limbic Surgery: Further Evidence of Anterior Cingulate Modulation of Autonomic Arousal

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 695-701

  Gentil, André Felix ^a,b   Eskandar, Emad N ^a   Marci, Carl David ^a   Evans, Karleyton Conroy ^a   Dougherty, Darin Dean ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulotomy; autonomic nervous system; cingulate cortex; electrodermal activity; subcaudate tractotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BILATERAL ANTERIOR CINGULOTOMY; BILATERAL SUBCAUDATE TRACTOTOMY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GYRUS CINGULI; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749101256     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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