A decade of functional brain imaging applied to bladder control

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-55

  Fowler, Clare J ^a   Griffiths, Derek J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder control; Brain imaging; Neurourology

Indexed keywords

BLADDER; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FILLING; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PELVIC FLOOR; SENSATION; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, URGE; URINARY RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 76049083999     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20740     Document Type: Review

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