Brain activation associated with ratings of the hedonic component of thermal sensation during whole-body warming and cooling

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-63

  Farrell, Michael J ^a   Johnson, John ^b   McAllen, Robin ^a   Zamarripa, Frank ^b   Denton, Derek A ^a,c   Fox, Peter T ^b   Egan, Gary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Limbic system; Positron Emission Tomography; Temperature sense

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE SENSATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; RATING SCALE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; WARMING;

EID: 78650615753     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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