The emotional motor system and micturition control

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-48

  Holstege, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotional motor system; Periaqueductal gray; Pontine micturition center; Urge incontinence

Indexed keywords

BLADDER; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; EMOTIONAL MOTOR SYSTEM; GERTS NUCLEUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; MICTURITION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PELVIS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFLEX ARC; REVIEW; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; URGE INCONTINENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PELVIC FLOOR; REFLEX; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, URGE; URINATION;

EID: 76049120693     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20789     Document Type: Review

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